The highest paid cardiologist in San Francisco earns $860,000, 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.
Cardiology
The cardiovascular specialty might just be the ASC industry's next golden child.
Healthgrades ranked the top 50 hospitals for cardiac surgery in 2023, including 13 in California.
Healthgrades ranked the top 50 hospitals for cardiac surgery in 2023, including two in Alabama.
Klaus Peter Rentrop, MD, a cardiologist at New York City-based Gramercy Cardiac Diagnostic Services, will pay $6.5 million to settle allegations he paid millions of dollars in kickbacks to physicians and their practices for patient referrals.
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The American College of Cardiology, the Heart Failure Society of America, the Heart Rhythm Society, and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions have come together to create a new board for cardiovascular medicine.
The median pay for invasive and interventional cardiology physicians rose 9 percent from 2022 to 2023, according to Sullivan Cotter's 2022-23 "Physician Compensation and Productivity Report."
Healthgrades ranked the 100 best hospitals for cardiac care in 2023 — and seven hospitals from Texas earned a spot.
The highest paid cardiologist in Houston earns $1,500,000, 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.
Here are three practices that have joined private equity-backed cardiovascular management group Cardiovascular Associates of America in 2023: