Economics

This channel highlights factors that impact hospital and healthcare economics and revenue. This includes news on healthcare policies, reimbursement, marketing, business plans, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain, salaries, staffing, and the implementation of a cost-effective environment for patients and providers.

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Merit Medical acquires vascular access system for $18.5 million

Merit Medical Systems announced this week that it has purchased the HeRO Graft vascular access system and its related assets from CryoLife for $18.5 million. 

Endologix, Inc. and TriVascular Technologies, Inc. Complete Merger

Endologix Treats 5,000 AAA Patients with Nellix® Endovascular Aneurysm Sealing System.

Medtronic acquires privately held company to expand renal care business

Medtronic acquired Bellco on Feb. 1 to expand its recently formed renal care solutions business. Terms of the deal were not announced.

Sales of MitraClip device increase in Q4

For the fourth quarter of 2015, Abbott’s worldwide medical device sales increased 0.7 percent on an operational basis, while its vascular products revenue decreased 0.5 percent.

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Move Your Mountain Sponsors a $1,000 #HeartStories Contest Promotion

Move Your Mountain will host an online Story Submission Contest for a chance to win a Grand Prize of $1,000.

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Hot Topics in Impella Reimbursement 2016: ICD-10 Coding Updates

Offered in cooperation with Abiomed

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?

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St. Jude Medical’s revenue increases in 4Q, but cardiac rhythm management division lags

For the fourth quarter of 2015, St. Jude Medical’s revenue in its cardiac rhythm management division declined 10 percent on a constant-currency basis compared with the same time period in 2014. Meanwhile, revenue in its atrial fibrillation, cardiovascular and neuromodulation divisions increased 4 percent, 2 percent and 9 percent, respectively.

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Interactive Health to Team Up with the American Heart Association

Interactive Health, a national leader for its personalized wellness solutions, announced today it is supporting the American Heart Association on a shared mission of improving health and reducing heart disease risk and death.

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Key takeaways from RSNA 2024 for AI, CT, MRI and the radiology staffing shortage

Several key trends were evident at the Radiological Society of North America 2024 meeting, including new CT and MR technology and evolving adoption of artificial intelligence.

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Use of AI opportunistic screening in CT for cardiovascular disease

Ron Blankstein, MD, professor of radiology, Harvard Medical School, explains the use of artificial intelligence to detect heart disease in non-cardiac CT exams.