Becker's Healthcare January 22, 2025
Cardiology is the fastest-growing ASC specialty. According to Avanza’s 2022 “Key ASC Benchmarks and Industry Figures” report, cardiology procedures saw the highest estimated Medicare payment increases in 2021.
This is in large part due to the migration of cardiac procedures to ASCs, which continues to accelerate as technology within the specialty advances.
“I believe cardiovascular procedures will be amongst the most common procedures to migrate from the hospital to the ASC setting,” Bruce Feldman, the administrator of Eastern Orange Ambulatory Surgery Center in Cornwall, N.J. told Becker’s. “These will include such procedures as ICDs, pacemakers, peripheral vascular stenting, coronary ablations, [percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty] and [transcatheter aortic valve replacement].”
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