Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare has received certificate-of-need approval to acquire Wallingford, Conn.-based Consulting Cardiologists P.C. The system expects that the transaction will be completed this summer, it confirmed in an email to Becker’s June 9. Hartford HealthCare Medical Group filed a…
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Iterative Health, a Massachusetts-based company with an international presence, has acquired the clinical research operations of Waco (Texas) Cardiology Associates along with cardiology research sites in Port Arthur and Beaumont, Texas — all three previously operated by NextStage Clinical Research,…
Five vascular and interventional medical societies issued a joint statement challenging a federal watchdog report that flagged $105 million in potentially unnecessary peripheral artery disease procedures billed to Medicare. The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, the Association of Black…
While federal investigators are raising red flags about peripheral vascular procedures performed in office-based labs, the same data tells a different story for ASCs. In May, the HHS Office of Inspector General released an investigation finding that physicians may be…
The Medical University of South Carolina has opened the first ASC for heart care in the state. The surgery center is located at the MUSC Health West Ashley Medical Pavilion in Charleston, S.C., according to a June 3 news release…
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The Trump administration suspects that physicians may be regularly performing medically unnecessary peripheral vascular procedures in office-based labs, according to a recent investigation released by the Office of Inspector General and HHS in May. In 2008 CMS put policies in…
Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth has relocated and rebranded its Trion, Ga., cardiology practice as AdventHealth Medical Group Cardiology at Summerville (Ga.). The practice began seeing patients May 18 at its new location inside AdventHealth Medical Group Primary Care & Urgent…
Pueblo, Colo.-based UCHealth Parkview Medical Center ended its cardiothoracic surgery program June 1, according to a report from The Pueblo Chieftain. Patients requiring cardiothoracic surgery will be referred to UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central in Colorado Springs, Colo., where the health…
A fire forced the temporary closure of Highland Cardiology in Henrietta, N.Y., according to a May 31 report by NBC affiliate WHEC-TV. The closure applies only to Highland Cardiology’s Red Creek Drive location and does not affect Rochester, N.Y.-based Highland…
Michele Esposito, MD, an interventional-heart failure cardiologist and assistant professor of medicine at the Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina, received a Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award, or K23, from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the…