From the Experts

In this month’s article, Larry Sobal, MedAxiom Executive Vice President, and Nicole Knight, Director, Revenue Cycle Solutions, MedAxiom Consulting, share their qualified and experienced views and observations regarding what has become a contentious and incomplete understanding of what hospitals believe they are being reimbursed versus the costs they and their patients are incurring for the CMS patient undergoing a PCI procedure. Same-day discharge for PCI is fast becoming a hot-button topic, but the benefits financially for the hospital and patient, not to mention providing a service the customer (patient) may very well prefer compared to conventional overnight stays, should be strongly considered for any program addressing the growing trend towards patient consumerism, population health, and meeting the quadruple aim. 
— Gary Clifton, Vice President, Terumo Business Edge

Kristin Truesdell, Manager, Corazon, Inc.,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Victor F. Tapson, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; Principal Investigator, OPTALYSE PE 

Results from a new study have moved the interventional pulmonary embolism field even further ahead by demonstrating significant improvement in right-heart strain with lower doses of tPA, making ultrasound-accelerated thrombolysis even safer.

Hamza Ansari¹, MD, Islam Bolad², MD

Cath Lab Digest talks with Amit P. Amin, MD, MSc, Cardiovascular Division, Washington University School of Medicine; Barnes-Jewish Hospital; Center for Value and Innovation, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri.

Sumit Som¹, MD, Perry Fisher², MD, Jaffar Raza³, MD, Virender Sethi⁴, MD, Pranaychandra Vaidya⁵, MD

Jason Bisesi, Placement Specialist, and Alex Lang, Recruiter, Corazon, Inc. 

Maartje E. Zonderland, PhD – Managing Consultant, 
Integrated Health Solutions, Medtronic, Heerlen, Netherlands

J.A. Mustapha, MD, Metro Health - University of Michigan Health
Wyoming, Michigan