A blast chatting with Vinit Baliyan about systolic phase imaging for #YesCCT on the Donut of Destiny podcast! Heart_SCCT

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A pleasure to virtually be on this expert panel with so many friends and colleagues ! Conference ongoing Ritu Thamman MD Mouaz Al-Mallah, M.D MSc Faisal Nabi Ziad Ali Dr. Purvi Parwani Juan Lopez-Mattei, MD Ryan P. Daly, MD
Thank you Sabha Bhatti MD for the invite and great work !!

One in a million opportunity 👀👇! If interested in Integrated Multimodality 🫀 Imaging Training #ACCImaging Join our amazing team Montefiore Heart ❤️ CCF Cardiology Fellows Brigham & Women's CV Fellows Bruno Lima Anam Waheed, MD Erika Hutt SISIAC American College of Cardiology

Sad truth! 😢Humans, according to payors, are already being replaced by AI. Quoting Ryan P. Daly, MD: 'Currently payors value HeartFlow 8x more than the physician that read these CCTA…please make it make sense.'

💓❤️‍🔥New clarification from CMS on billing #CCTA
CMS updated policy to allow #CCTA to be reported w/ appropriate revenue codes!

Clinical charge masters can use revenue codes 0489x (Cardiology – Other) or 0409x (Other Imaging Services)

Learn more: ow.ly/yKx350RooJH

This is important stuff! When hospitals submit #YesCCT charges to CMSGov, payment rates (to hospitals) is ⬇️ than cost of providing CCTA b/c of faulty methodology. Under current system, only way to fix this is to submit charges under appropriate rev code

Sergio Kaiser MD, PhD, FACC, FESC 🇧🇷🇮🇱🇷🇴🇺🇦 Harpreet Bhatia SABOURETCardiologist Thomas Dayspring Here is link to 🔥editorial beautifully put together by Arthur shiyovich summarizing how #CAC and #YesCCT , whether in clinical setting or research, can help identify high risk pts w/🔼 Lp(a):

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#HB1388 is signed!!! Non-competes will be strictly regulated in Maryland! Restrictive covenants are banned for all under $350k, and limited to 1 year and 10 miles from primary practice location for >350k. This is huge for patient continuity of care and for health professional…

Keto diet ‘does not fulfill the criteria of a healthy diet,’ could be harmful for heart patients cardiovascularbusiness.com/topics/clinica…

This, but for real

Beautiful tamponade #POCUS by Nabeel Saghir. American Society of Echocardiography #ACCFIT Fellows, what can be a complication of large volume pericardiocentesis- especially in hyperadrenergic states (malignancy)?

Patricia Rodriguez-Lozano giving a master class on #chest pain after #SCAD Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute iSCADregistry SCAD Conference Christopher Kramer MD ⬇️

Great abstract at ACC, garnered a lot of press about post-menopausal women and CAC progression:

Now we are talking! Power 💪!!!

Notice the ability to distinguish stent strut from native calcified plaque. This is ultra-high resolution scanning. 👀

#yesCCT #pcct

This review by Ayaz Aghayev Sumit Gupta Michael Steigner is one of the best pictorial review on the topic of normal and abnormal post operative appearance after transcatheter and surgical aortic interventions.

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The Enhancement Pattern That Rings the Bell - American College of Cardiology acc.org/Education-and-…
#ACCimaging American College of Cardiology Ron Blankstein

Congratulations Carlos Gongora, MD FACC ! 👏🏼👏🏼
So well deserved!

Congratulations to fellows Ryan Wallace, Andrew Hill & Ilan Merdler, IC faculty Brian C. Case, MD Hayder Hashim Itsik Ben Dor Ron Waksman on their pub highlighting the clinical and economic impact of coronary microvascular dysfunction.

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