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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?

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.

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.

Medtronic has announced a partnership with a Chinese municipal government to expand access to diabetes treatments.

Months after the U.S. FDA approved a device with the potential to close the source of many atrial fibrillation-related strokes, hospitals, cardiologists and patients find themselves in a holding pattern increasingly common for newly emerging therapies: They are waiting for the CMS to issue a national coverage determination for LAA occlusion.

One morning last year, a patient checked into a hospital in Canada as the first TAVR case of the day, and they were discharge by that evening. It was an eyebrow-raising feat for a procedure that typically requires several days of hospitalization.

The merger of Pittsburgh’s WPAHS and insurance giant Highmark is a sign of the times and the start of a trend, says Tony G. Farah, MD, CMO of Allegheny Health Network (AHN), now an integrated healthcare delivery and finance system.