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Controversies January 6, 2025
Cardiologists Busted for Overbilling Nationwide January 6, 2025
Adding to a relentless trend of Medicare schemes, 16 cardiology practices agreed to pay more than $17.7M to resolve allegations that they overbilled for diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals and violated the False Claims Act. The DOJ accused these practices of reporting “inflated acquisition costs” to Medicare for materials needed to perform cardiovascular imaging. The three largest settlements […]
Controversies December 19, 2024
Challenging the CHAGASICS Trial December 19, 2024
Exposing the failures of peer review, Dr. Anis Rassi Jr. MD, PhD, recently published his letter to JAMA Cardiology in Sensible Medicine about glaring issues with the CHAGASICS trial. The story began with Dr. Rassi expressing his concerns to the study’s editor at JAMA who advised him to submit a formal letter to JAMA’s Editor-in-Chief […]
Structural Heart December 16, 2024
Capstan’s Robotic MR/TR Frontier Funding December 16, 2024
Capstan Medical took a key step towards its vision of launching the first robotic cardiac valve surgery system, landing $110M in Series C funding. Focusing on mitral and tricuspid valve diseases, Capstan’s treatment combines transcatheter implantation of a folded valve replacement with its X-ray and ultrasound-guided robot to align the low-profile implant with the beating […]
