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Avoiding audits, compliance planning and MACRA super users

Cathie Biga, RN, MSN, discusses the importance of pre-planning for physician practices to avoid an audit. Having a full compliance plan for coding and documentation audits helps with appropriateness criteria, electronic medical record standards and making sure billing matches up with documentation. She also recommends that practices have at least one person who understands the MACRA legislation and shares the information with the entire group.

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What are the biggest challenges facing cardiovascular specialists today?

Cardiovascular providers discuss their biggest challenges, including payers refusing to cover tests, procedures or medications that could benefit patients and providing costly and beneficial therapies and procedures while dealing with cost constraints. There are plenty more, listen in.

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ABSORB-III: Patient selection, vessel size key to success

Cardiologists J.P. Reilly, MD, and Larry S. Dean, MD, offer insight on the two-year results of the ABSORB III trial that evaluated Abbott’s Absorb bioresorbable vascular scaffold. They also talk about the March 18th FDA advisory letter alerting healthcare professionals of an increase in major adverse cardiac events with the Absorb compared with the Xience drug-eluting stent. As they note, physicians need to be careful about selecting the right patients who may benefit from bioresorbable stents, using them in right-sized vessels and making sure to properly deploy the devices.

ACC video: Women with AF have similar outcomes to men, but quality of life varies

SAN FRANCISCO—ORBIT-AF is a prospective, longitudinal, observational study that evaluated treatment patterns and the subsequent outcomes of 10,000 patients in the U.S. As part of the analysis, Jonathan P. Piccini, MD, and his colleagues looked at potential gender disparities in the treatment and clinical outcomes of these patients. The results were presented at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) scientific session.

ACC Video: Mummy study shows atherosclerosis may not be a modern curse

SAN FRANCISCO—Heart disease is a serial killer that’s been stalking mankind for 4,000 years, according to research presented March 10 at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) scientific session and published concurrently online in The Lancet. CT imaging showed evidence of atherosclerosis in 35 percent of mummies from four ancient civilizations. The myth-busting Horus study suggests atherosclerosis may not be linked to modern lifestyles and diet.

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Several key trends were evident at the Radiological Society of North America 2024 meeting, including new CT and MR technology and evolving adoption of artificial intelligence.

Ron Blankstein, MD, professor of radiology, Harvard Medical School, explains the use of artificial intelligence to detect heart disease in non-cardiac CT exams.