Cardiology

CMS released proposals to update cardiovascular disease risk assessment and risk management services.

The American Heart Association Eastern States Board of Directors appointed William Ashley, MD, PhD, as president-elect.

Mobile, Ala.-based USA Health Cardiology has relocated from its existing facility in Dauphin, Ala., to a new physician office building that opened to patients July 1. 

Approximately 22 million Americans need to travel almost 90 miles round trip to seek specialty cardiology care, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 

Healthgrades recently released its rankings for the best hospitals in the U.S. for cardiac care, including eight in Florida.

Prabodh Mehta, MD, a longtime cardiologist at Baptist Health Medical Group Cardiology in Elizabethtown, Ky., will retire July 19 following 34 years in the field, according to a July 1 report from The News-Enterprise.

Jon Kobashigawa, MD, director of the heart transplant program at Cedars-Sinai, assumed the role of president of the American Society of Transplantation.

New York City-based NYU Langone has added a cardiology group in Atlantis, Fla., to its care network. 

Over the last 10 years, 342 cardiology clinics have been acquired by private equity firms. Over 94% of those acquisitions occurred between 2021 and 2023, according to research presented at the 2024 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting. 

Cardiovascular procedures are ASCs' next frontier, as more high-acuity procedures become approved for the outpatient setting.