Becker's Healthcare January 8, 2025
Cardiac catheterization labs have been gaining steam as an outpatient venture, as more cardiovascular procedures migrate to the ASC setting.
Cardiac catheterization labs allow cardiologists to perform minimally invasive heart and vascular procedures to diagnose and treat cardiac and peripheral vascular diseases. According to a recent blog post by Ascendient, a healthcare consulting firm, cardiac catheterizations are used more than 1 million times per year in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
“Today, appropriate outpatient diagnostic and interventional cardiac cath procedures are increasingly being performed in [ASCs] across the country, especially in states without [certficate-of-need] regulations,” reads the Ascendient post. “A number of [certificate-of-need] states in the southeastern U.S. have been generally more cautious, with the pace...
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