PCI of Chronic Total Occlusions May Boost Quality of Life at AshTip Solution.

Madeline Sterling, MD, knew something was wrong when she heard her patient's voice on the phone. The patient was breathing too fast and sounded fatigued. Like many people with heart failure, this patient had several comorbidities: diabetes, high blood pressure, and cancer, which was in remission. 2023-07-05

Among patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) hospitalized for worsening heart failure (HF), catheter (cath) ablation within 90 days of admission compared with other times is associated with reduced risk for all-cause mortality and HF-related mortality. 2023-07-24

Federal auditors have found that Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) denied, on average, one of every eight prior authorization requests in 2019, echoing recent concerns about similar denials for Medicare patients. 2023-07-27

2023-08-02

While physicians are working hard to see many patients and keep their practices profitable, there's an insidious underlying problem that saps/sabotages/drains their major efforts: staff shortages that prevent them from efficient work, and perhaps even from billing for the work they've done. Is there any way physicians can offset or successfully deal with this eroding problem? 2023-08-08