Tag: insurance
Lack of access to vascular specialists creates major disparities in amputation...
Speaking on current trends in amputation rates with critical limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI) patients, Misty Humphries (Sacramento, USA) tells Vascular News that while Medicare data shows that amputation rates...
New CMS reimbursement code “severely underpays” for drug-coated balloons
Drug-coated balloon (DCB) angioplasty devices have been categorised by the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) into the same billing code as...
Higher failure to rescue rates for open aortic surgery in hospitals...
As the US Congress debates funding Medicaid and the uninsured, a new vascular study finds that hospitals with a high ratio of those two...
