While the average salary for a cardiologist is $436,849, pay for an individual practitioner is all over the map, literally. The Atlantic paired up with Doximity, a social network for physicians, to highlight a tool that shows salary by specialty and county.

About one-fifth of the cost for retail prescriptions comes from patients’ pockets. To offset the expense, some patients cut corners.

Peripheral interventions by the cardiologist who captured headlines for billing Medicare $18 million are now under scrutiny, which prompted the New York Times to investigate the upsurge in peripheral stenting.

Implementing 2014 hypertension guidelines could save lives and money. A cost analysis study found that full implementation of hypertension guidelines could save 13,000 people from cardiovascular-related deaths and prevent 56,000 cardiovascular events annually.

Novel oral anticoagulants may beat warfarin for cost-effectiveness, but does that mean they offer a genuinely good value?

Today’s reimbursement models increasingly require physicians to be cost-conscious. Including cost analyses in trials will help them make good choices.

BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina unveiled a database that allows consumers to compare treatment costs at hospitals. The tool shows wide variation in payments for cardiac procedures and imaging.

Major healthcare-associated infections up to two months after cardiac surgery may tag an additional $38,000 to the cost of the index hospitalization, a finding that researchers propose may spur hospitals to invest in preventive measures.