Kris Godlewski, MD, a cardiologist, filed a lawsuit against Saint Peter’s Hospital in Montana claiming the hospital cost him $600,000 over six years, KTVH reports.

Abiomed’s revenue increased 34 percent to $114.7 million during the third fiscal quarter of 2017 compared with the same time period last year. Meanwhile, its GAAP net income increased from $0.23 per diluted share in the third fiscal quarter of 2016 to $0.34 per share in the third fiscal quarter of 2017.

Cigna agreed to a value-based episodes-of-care payment model with HeartWell, a medical practice with 23 cardiologists in nine offices in South Florida.

Johnson & Johnson agreed to acquire Actelion Pharmaceuticals on Jan. 26 for approximately $30 billion.

A new article in Medical Marketing and Media discusses how the marketing of diabetes products could soon change as the American healthcare landscape transforms under new presidential leadership.

A jury in Miami acquitted a cardiologist of receiving thousands of dollars in kickbacks as part of a Medicare fraud scheme, the Miami Herald reports.

Readmissions for non-Medicare patients and in other settings are not as closely monitored, although a database analysis suggests that patients spend nearly a week in the hospital and cost nearly $10,000 per readmission.

Clinicians can reduce the “tube voltage” (kVp) in CT pulmonary angiography without reducing image quality, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Researchers conducted a retrospective study to measure CT pulmonary angiography image quality as tube voltage was lowered, taking into account patient size as well as the benefits of simple image post-processing.