The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that three facilities had met its standards for performing carotid artery stenting for high-risk patients.
The agency approved Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home, Arkansas, on Oct. 26, Wellington Regional Medical Center in Wellington, Florida, on Nov. 8 and St. Mark’s Hospital in Salt Lake City on Nov. 30.
CMS has approved 1,368 facilities to perform these procedures, including 18 this year. Here are the other facilities that have been approved in 2016:
- Sky Ridge Medical Center in Lone Tree, Colorado
- McLaren Port Huron in Port Huron, Michigan
- DMC Huron Valley – Sinai Hospital in Commerce, Michigan
- Las Palmas Medical Center in El Paso, Texas
- Community Medical Center Barnabas Health in Toms River, New Jersey
- VHS Brownsville Hospital DBA Valley Baptist Medical Center in Brownsville, Texas
- Manchester Memorial Hospital in Manchester, Connecticut
- Grand Stand Medical Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
- Ben Taub Hospital in Houston, Texas
- South Georgia Medical Center in Valdosta, Georgia
- Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford, Mississippi
- Aurora Medical Center in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
- Temecula Valley Hospital in Temecula, California
- Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts
- Great Plains Health Heart & Vascular Center in North Platte, Nebraska
Executive Editor
Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.