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2018 CMS Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule Overview
News | Published: Friday, November 10, 2017
MedAxiom and the Cardiology Advocacy Alliance have summarized the major provisions of the 2018 final PFS rule that was published on November 2. The summary highlights major policy changes, focusing on those impacting cardiology. Members get access to payment tables associated with various procedures identified by MedAxiom as most relevant for its CV community.
2018 CMS OPPS/ASC Final Rule Overview
News | Published: Friday, November 3, 2017
MedAxiom and the Cardiology Advocacy Alliance have summarized the major provisions of the 2018 final OPPS/ASC rule that was published on November 1. The summary highlights major policy changes, including those impacting cardiology. Members get access to payment tables associated with various procedures identified by MedAxiom as most relevant for its CV community.
pMD Advances CV Care through MedAxiom Partnership
News | Published: Thursday, September 21, 2017
Fast-growing, award-winning health care tech leader brings charge capture and information sharing innovations to nation’s top CV organizations.
For U.S. Cardiologists, Age and Income Continue to Rise
News | Published: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
MedAxiom, the nation’s leading cardiovascular health care performance community and top CV-specific consulting firm, has released its fifth annual Cardiovascular Provider Compensation & Production Survey—a highly sought-after resource for health care decision-makers. This year’s survey reveals a number of significant trends.
ESC: Huge Diet Study Shows Carbs, Not Fats Are the Problem
Partner News | Published: Sunday, September 17, 2017
Tim Callahan, President of Ideal Protein, a MedAxiom partner, points out the findings of this very large PURE study to cardiovascular business leaders.
ScImage and INVIA Partnership Announced
Partner News | Published: Sunday, September 17, 2017
ScImage, Inc. and INVIA Imaging Solutions are pleased to announce their formation of a joint partnership at the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology’s 22nd Annual Scientific Session. ScImage, an industry leader in scalable web-based image and information management systems, has teamed with INVIA, an industry leader in cardiology imaging software solutions, to enable users of their PICOM365 Enterprise PACS seamless access to 4DM. Users of PICOM365 will now have access to 4DM’s advanced quantification capabilities as part of their on-premises, Cloud, or hybrid enterprise solution.
Study: Obesity fuels silent heart damage, increased risk of future heart failure
Partner News | Published: Thursday, August 31, 2017
Tim Callahan, President of Ideal Protein, a MedAxiom partner, shares his concern regarding the results of this Johns Hopkins study that shows a direct relationship found between obesity and subclinical heart damage, which is quite potent and truly concerning from a public health standpoint given the growing number of obese people in the United States and worldwide.
FY 2018 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule: CV-Specific Overview
News | Published: Monday, August 14, 2017
MedAxiom has highlighted those issues that are cardiovascular in nature and included links to a fact sheet as well as the full Final Rule. Below is a summary table of the some of the most significant changes from 2017 to 2018. It is followed by key points
Are We Really Moving to Value?
News | Published: Monday, August 14, 2017
MedAxiom’s Larry Sobal asks two very important and related questions of the CV industry in a new article in the July/August issue of Cardiac Interventions Today magazine: Are We Really Moving to Value? Or Are We Just Paying for Health Care Differently?
Cath Lab Profitability
News | Published: Monday, August 14, 2017
Ryan Graver, President of MedAxiom Ventures, served as guest editor for the Expert Advice section of Cath Lab Digest this month with his “Cath Lab Profitability” article, which focuses on the importance of and pathway to cath lab optimization.
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