Merit Medical Systems announced on March 27 that the company plans on selling 5,175,000 shares in a public offering of common stock with a total expected net proceeds of $136.5 million.

CMS delayed the implementation date for its bundled payments for cardiac care from July 1 until Oct. 1. It also hinted that it could further delay the model until Jan. 1, 2018.

Romeo Pavlic, MD, a cardiologist from Spokane, Washington, agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging he overbilled Medicare and Medicaid patients, the Spokesman-Review reports.

Acasti Pharma appointed Barry A. Franklin, PhD, and Robert Hegele, MD, to the company’s scientific advisory board.

As part of a $217 million project, Mayo Clinic will relocate and upgrade its cardiac surgery facilities. The board of trustees approved the plans, which in addition to giving the cardiac facilities a facelift, will also expand and modernize its Saint Marys Campus in Rochester, Minnesota, where the health system is based.

Fitchburg, Massachusetts-based Arrhythmia Research Technology is rebranding itself Micron Solutions as a way to better align itself with Micron Products, the subsidiary it fully owns that produces medical device components through machining and injection molding. 

In 2012, more than 45 percent of cardiometabolic deaths in the U.S. were associated with suboptimal intakes of 10 dietary factors, according to a comparative risk assessment model.

Cardiovascular disease remains a challenging condition not only from a patient perspective, but from a financial perspective, as well.