The economic benefits of home-based CV care | Mechanical CPR gaining popularity despite lack of evidence

Medicine is moving farther from its fee-for-service roots and closer to more individualized, value-based care—a phenomenon that could benefit a growing number of home-based care programs, according to data presented at MedAxiom’s CV Transforum.

The U.S. is seeing an uptick in the use of mechanical resuscitation devices despite a paucity of evidence that the digitized CPR tools are effective, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open this fall.

Multiarterial CABG was linked to lower rates of long-term mortality, reintervention and MI than single-arterial CABG in a recent study of heart patients, suggesting the multiarterial approach is underused in contemporary practice.

The 2010s saw a decrease in age-adjusted mortality associated with heart disease, according to a JAMA Cardiology report, but a concomitant rise in heart failure-related deaths and increase in the global population of adults over 65 actually resulted in an increase in the number of fatalities attributed to CVD.

CMS has finalized a rule that states, come Jan. 1, it will begin paying for certain PCIs performed at ambulatory surgical centers in the U.S.

The notion of a single-payer health system has been central to the 2020 presidential election, dominating much of the news cycle in recent months. According to an editorial published Nov. 4, that could be a good thing for physicians.