Cardiology is one of the most "active and sought after areas within physician practice management," according to Provident's third-quarter "Mergers and Acquisitions Update" report.
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Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and healthcare technology company Agamon Health have entered a partnership to expand Agamon's cardiology offerings, according to a Nov. 8 report from Imaging Technology News.
The highest paid cardiologist in Boston earns $921,200, according to Medscape's salary reporter tool, which is much higher than the mean annual wage of $421,330 cardiologists make, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Sanford Bemidji (Minn.) Heart and Vascular Center has added Linda Gossett, MD, to its team of cardiologists, according to a Nov. 8 report by Park Rapids Enterprise.
There are 34,312 active physicians specializing in cardiology in the U.S., according to recent data from KFF.
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Newport Beach, Calif.-based Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has implanted one of the world's first dual-chamber leadless pacemaker in a patient, a minimally invasive procedure recently cleared by the FDA.
On Nov. 3, Mulkay Cardiology Consultants at Holy Name Medical Center in Hackensack, N.J., notified the Maine attorney general's office of a ransomware incident that the company discovered in September, databreaches.net reported Nov. 6.
Dalton, Ga.-based Hamilton Health Care System opened a cardiology practice in Cleveland, Tenn., according to a recent LinkedIn post from the health system.
WebMD released the results of the hospitals and health systems that providers prefer the most for cardiology in the U.S.
From August 2022 to 2023, cardiology patient volumes increased in four of five geographic regions in the U.S., according to an Oct. 26 "Strata and Syntellis Performance Trends" report, which reviewed data from 2,000 hospitals and 135,000 physicians nationwide.