Editor's note: In an earlier version of this story we reported that the St Jude Medical Riata lead had been previously recalled; no such recall has occurred. This has been corrected. But in this ...

Another important aspect of risk stratification is consideration of heart-failure (HF) burden. A recent study of 66 000 Medicare patients with ICDs [23] showed that repeated HF hospitalizations or a ...

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) generator replacement in Canadian patients with devices that were recalled was associated with an 8 percent rate of complications, according to a study in ...

National Medical Billing Services Senior Vice President, Coding Angela Talton, MBA, RHIA, CCS, CPC, CPC-H, discussed how ambulatory surgery centers can prepare for the transition to ICD-10 in a ...

1. Ask outsourced coding vendors for documentation on ICD-10 transition plans. Many ASCs outsource their coding to third-party vendors, meaning surgery center leaders must speak to vendors about their ...

Dan Rodrigues, CEO of Kareo, discusses how small surgery centers and medical practices can ease the transition to ICD-10. “ICD-10 will have a big impact on the medical reimbursement project and ...

Looking at a large cohort of patients undergoing various types of open heart surgery, investigators have provided contemporary data that can be used to inform patients about the risks of cardiac ...

New data from a Canadian registry suggest that angina, antiarrhythmic therapy and low implanter volume are among the risk factors associated with complications after implantable cardioverter ...