Some insurers are covering the costs of rides to the gym, specially prepared meals and telephone checkups for patients with chronic conditions hoping that these measures will help limit expensive trips to the hospital later on.

The implementation of e-counseling, in addition to traditional medical therapy, improved systolic blood pressure, pulse pressure, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk reduction in the REACH (Reducing Risk with E-based support for Adherence to Lifestyle Change in Hypertension) trial.

As healthcare shifts from fee-for-service to value-based payment models, practices are experimenting with different ways to measure physicians’ contributions to their practices. Will time value units (TVUs) one day replace relative value units (RVUs)?

Troponin has become a widely accepted cardiac biomarker for myocardial infarction patients admitted to emergency rooms. But just how reliable is troponin in determining if a heart attack is really a heart attack?

Santa Fe cardiologist Roy Heilbron, MD, has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for medical fraud and obstruction of justice. He pleaded guilty to fraud last year.

A new survey from University of Utah Health revealed that most physicians feel responsible for educating patients about the cost of care but don’t believe they should be held accountable for it.

The proportion of cardiology practices that are integrated with a hospital or health system has grown by 34 percent in the last decade—matching the most dramatic growth of any specialty, according to a study in the July edition of Health Affairs.

In the era of the Quadruple Aim, there’s no shortage of studies, media coverage and commentary on how our healthcare systems may be overusing resources.