The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today finalized its rule for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs) that AMGA contends will slow the transition to value.

Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT) announces the release of its fiscal year 2017 Integrated Performance Report. The report highlights the combined financial, social, and environmental impact of Medtronic.

With the exception of a handful of major organs, a recent poll of 63 Lancaster, England, residents yielded one clear result: The global public suffers from a lack of knowledge of basic human anatomy—a phenomenon that could compromise future healthcare efforts and the efficacy of clinical systems.

Increasing access to plain drinking water in school cafeterias throughout the U.S. could prevent 570,000 children from becoming overweight or obese and save $13.1 billion in medical costs and indirect societal costs, suggests a new study in Pediatric Obesity.

Herbert D. Aronow, MD, MPH, discussed with Cardiovascular Business how to align financial incentives between physicians, hospital administrators and other stakeholders, and how collaboration could lead to success under MACRA.

A noninvasive technology that allows clinicians to view a simulated, three-dimensional model of a patient’s coronary blood flow will be reimbursed by CMS beginning in 2018, HeartFlow announced Nov. 6.

A leading cardiology organization gave mixed reviews of CMS’s final rule regarding the 2018 Quality Payment Program (QPP).

In Mexico, where more than half of the population doesn’t have access to private health insurance, physicians are successfully recycling donated pacemakers to patients in need, the European Society of Cardiology reported this week.