How Heart Specialists Benefit From Medicare’s TAVR Restrictions

For 14 years, patient access to TAVR has been restricted for Medicare beneficiaries under a Coverage with Evidence ...
Medscape

CMS Panel Takes First Look at Volume Requirements for TAVR Centers

The Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) took a tepid step toward keeping and/or possibly discarding procedural volume requirements for new and continuing ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Best practices in managing TAVR expansion: collaborative networks of care

This paper summarizes the implications of recent TAVR program expansion, supports the 2019 multisociety expert consensus recommendation of Level 1 and Level 2 valve centers, and defines the important ...
Medscape

Updated TAVR Consensus Document Highlights Quality, Not Just Volume

Four cardiology societies issued a joint statement for requirements for centers with existing or new transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) programs, which updates a 2012 statement. The new ...
The Business Journals

Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center celebrates its 5,000th TAVR procedure

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center and its team of world ...