The Journal of the American College of Cardiology announced it would launch JAMA Cardiology early next year.

MedAxiom Consulting vice president Joel Sauer travels the U.S. visiting with clients and cardiovascular programs. Recently, he’s noticed an increased focus on aligning physician compensation around value-based care initiatives and keeping costs down while improving quality.

During the first 60 days after heart attacks, women receive fewer aggressive treatments than men even though a higher percentage of women die or become disabled following heart attacks, according to a report from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and Blue Health Intelligence.

Members of the United Nations have vowed to reduce premature cardiovascular disease mortality by 25 percent by 2025. To achieve the goal, countries have targeted cardiovascular disease risk factors such as tobacco use, diabetes, obesity and blood pressure.

A jury in Ohio convicted cardiologist Harold Persaud of performing unnecessary tests and procedures and overbilling Medicare and private insurers by $7.2 million.

Three major cardiology societies released a new guideline on Sept. 23 to manage adults with all types of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) other than atrial fibrillation.

In 2014, the median compensation for cardiologists increased six percent from the previous year to $542,000 per full-time equivalent, according to MedAxiom Consulting’s cardiovascular provider compensation and production survey.

Leading physicians said the use of newly FDA-approved proprotein convertase subtilisin kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibitors should be limited to a small number of patients who cannot tolerate statins. The doctors spoke at a "Rethinking Cholesterol" panel presented by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in collaboration with Reuters.