An upcoming American College of Cardiology (ACC) webinar, hosted by the ACCs Cardiovascular Administrator Work Group, will cover the coding essentials that cardiovascular professionals need to thrive.

The latest edition of American College of Cardiology's (ACC) CardioSurve newsletter takes a look at the impact and utilization of information from the clinical perspective at the point of care, where digital access is as common as a stethoscope, to the back office procedures once mired in paper processing that now operate on an information cloud. This focus on data streaming is an important facet of the continuum of care that impacts all aspects of practices from patient outcomes to reimbursement.

The American College of Cardiology's (ACC) Council on Clinical Practice has issued a new white paper to describe the various aspects of developing and managing a successful cardiovascular (CV) service line.

A quartet of life science trade associations encouraged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to publish a final rule implementing the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that would require pharmaceutical, medical device, biological and medical supply manufacturers to report payments made to providers and teaching hospitals to the Department of Health and Human Services.

The time is right for a unified, organized approach toward updating breast cancer screening practices, according to an article published in the September issue of Radiology.

In a comparison of clinical decision rules for use of CT in mild head injury, the Canadian CT Head Rule was better able to predict need for neurosurgical intervention than the New Orleans Criteria, according to a study published online Aug. 24 in Annals of Emergency Medicine.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has lowered its healthcare spending estimates for 2013 to 2022. An Aug. 22 report projects Medicaid and Medicare spending will be $494 billion less than a March estimate had predicted.

Medtronic's Arctic Front Advance cardiac cryoballoon ablation device has received both FDA approval and CE Mark for the treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.