Learn from this implanter-turned-administrator how Loma Linda University Health Care is focused on growth and strategy to improve patient care and outcomes, strengthen their heart team and measure and monitor their financials to ensure their patients and program are healthy. Dr. Anthony Hilliard shares how they’re nurturing their team and culture and investing in their people, patient experience, IT and marketing to achieve consistently strong clinical and financial results.
Join us to gain a deeper understanding of the landscape for physician reimbursement for cardiovascular and interventional procedures. We’ll offer a quick look at how CPT codes and RVUs are valued—and how physicians and leaders can proactively impact future rates.
Learn from experts retooling interventional programs how to keep patients and staff safe as the pandemic is evolving. Gain practical insight on how health systems are prioritizing COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients and dealing with backlogged cases, minimizing the need for additional ICU beds, triaging clinical needs along with essential personnel plus resources, and expanding lines of communication pre-and post-procedure with patients and families.
Learn from leading billing and reimbursement specialists about how to improve your Case Mix Index (CMI) and reimbursement. See how hospitals are using complete and accurate coding for reimbursement and a correct CMI, and why a lack of good documentation could mean lower weighted DRGs and a lower CMI.
Proven protocols and practices, people and a push for earlier hemodynamic support are changing the face of cardiogenic shock survival. One leading health system has improved survival rates into the 70+ percent range. And their team believes other facilities should follow suit.
Good outcomes in revascularizing high-risk, complex PCI patients start with careful patient selection. The heart team at VA North Texas Healthcare System in Dallas shares their decision-making process for patient selection for Protected PCI.
Good outcomes in revascularizing high-risk, complex PCI patients start with careful patient selection. The secret to success in complete revascularization with Protected PCI involves some art, some science and begins with following proven protocols.
Are you maximizing your reimbursement based on your cardiovascular patient base? How have you been handling all of the new coding updates around ICD-10 since October 1st, along with the scrutiny around increased specificity with medical documentation?
Bakersfield Heart Hospital was as an early adopter of Abiomed’s Impella 2.5 miniature temporary ventricular assist device and now has expanded its use in elective and urgent high-risk PCI procedures.
The University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, already a major national referral center, has recently undergone a significant culture shift. The change began when Robb MacLellan, MD, joined as chief of cardiology of UW Medicine Regional Heart Center in 2011.
Training and passion sit at the core of the University of Washington Medical Center heart team's mission. Learn how this national training site for Protected PCI with hemodynamic support is teaching: hands-on, in-depth, in-person, head to head.
High-risk PCI patients have new options at Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia with the Impella 2.5, a miniature heart pump for use in elective and urgent high-risk PCI procedures.
