During one of the press conferences at the ACC conference, co-chair Edward J. McNulty, MD, of the University of California San Francisco and Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco, noted that many aspects of cardiovascular care are just getting better, including medical therapy, cardiac surgery and percutaneous interventions; therefore, it is becoming harder to show a statistically significant improvement for a single therapy which ultimately is very good news for the cardiovascular patient.

NEW ORLEANS An expert panel offered strategies for navigating new Medicare codes and provided tips for preparing for the ICD-10 transition, during a Monday presentation at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology.

New OrleansPresenters emphasized the importance of governance in practice integration negotiations and offered tips for determining when to walk away from the conference table, during the Managing Your Practice in a Transforming Health System: Part 1 session, held Sunday at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology.

NEW ORLEANS--American College of Cardiology (ACC) President Ralph Brindis, MD, MPH, sits down with Cardiovascular Business to discuss how cardiovascular providers will need to embrace appropriate use criteria, as well as better collection and reporting of their data, in order to demonstrate improvement in the quality of care within clinical practice. The discussion took place at the annual ACC scientific sessions.

NEW ORLEANSAmerican College of Cardiology (ACC) CEO Jack Lewin advised the cardiology community to begin preparing for a move away from the current fee-for-service model of the U.S. healthcare system during a presentation April 2 at the 60th annual ACC conference.

Despite the fact that 80 percent of all heart failure (HF) cases affect patients over the age of 65, elderly patients go underrepresented in ongoing clinical trials evaluating the condition, according to an analysis published in the March 28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Sunday, April 5, 12:30-1:45 PM

In the 17 most recently published American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association clinical practice guidelines, conflict of interest (COI) reporting was prevalent but varied. However, the report, published in the March 28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, suggests that there may be a large number of potential expert writers and reviewers with guideline writing experience that do not have COIs.