Volume 25 - Issue 10 - October 2017

Morton J. Kern, MD, with contributions from Samuel M. Butman, MD, Heart & Vascular Center of Northern Arizona, Cottonwood, Arizona; Lloyd W. Klein MD, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois; Gregory J. Dehmer, MD, Texas A&M College of Medicine, Temple, Texas; Ajay Kirtane, MD, Columbia University/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, New York; Neal Kleiman, MD, Houston Methodist, Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston, Texas; Bonnie H. Weiner, MD, University of Massachusetts, Worchester, Massachusetts; Barry Borlaug, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Paul Teirstein, MD, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California; Kirk Garrett, MD, Christiana Hospital System, Wilmington, Delaware.

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

Srihari S. Naidu, MD, Director, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Program; Jason Jacobson, MD, Cardiac Electrophysiology; Kellee Lefco, RN, Assistant Nurse Manager, Cath Lab; Gabbie Fried, Vice President Nursing, Cardiovascular Services; Angelica Poniros, RCS, Clinical Manager of Non Invasive Cardiology; Tanya Dutta, MD, Director of Echocardiography; Robert Timmermans, MD, Interventional Cardiology and Cath Lab Director; Julio A. Panza, MD, FACC, FAHA, Chief of Cardiology; Westchester Medical Center, WMCHealth, Valhalla, New York.

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

Morton J. Kern, MD, with contributions from Samuel M. Butman, MD, Heart & Vascular Center of Northern Arizona, Cottonwood, Arizona; Lloyd W. Klein MD, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois; Gregory J. Dehmer, MD, Texas A&M College of Medicine, Temple, Texas; Ajay Kirtane, MD, Columbia University/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, New York; Neal Kleiman, MD, Houston Methodist, Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston, Texas; Bonnie H. Weiner, MD, University of Massachusetts, Worchester, Massachusetts; Barry Borlaug, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Paul Teirstein, MD, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California; Kirk Garrett, MD, Christiana Hospital System, Wilmington, Delaware.

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.

Barry T. Katzen, MD, Founder and Chief Medical Executive, Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute; Dan Krauthamer, MD, Medical Director of Interventional Cardiology, Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute – South Miami Hospital; Marcus St. John, MD, Medical Director of Cardiac Catheterization Lab, Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute – Baptist Hospital; Jane Kiah, MSN, RN, Director of Invasive Services, Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute – Baptist Hospital;  Brenda John, MSN, MS-HSA, RN, Director of Nursing, Interventional Services & Heart Rhythm Center, Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute – South Miami Hospital, Miami, Florida

CLI Perspectives is headed by section editor J.A. Mustapha, MD, Metro Health – University of Michigan Health, Wyoming, Michigan. 

Dr. Mustapha talks with Mark L. Lessne, MD, Vascular & Interventional Specialists of Charlotte Radiology; Adjunct Assistant Professor in Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University, Charlotte, North Carolina.

William A. Crosland¹, MD, Gautam Kumar^1,2, MD
¹Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; ²Atlanta VA Medical Center, Decatur, Georgia

Didier Tchétché, MD, Quentin Labarre, MD, Nicolas Dumonteil, MD, Pamela Gatto, MD, Andrea Mangiameli, MD, Thomas Thimon, MD, Farid Nedjari, MD, Bruno Farah, MD, Atul Pathak, MD, PhD, Jean Fajadet, MD
Groupe CardioVasculaire Interventionnel, Clinique Pasteur, Toulouse, France