Market and regulatory changes in the cardiovascular space are leading to the exodus of procedures to lower-cost settings.
The migration of these procedures to office-based labs (OBLs) and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) has accelerated with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services addition of diagnostic heart catheterizations and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to the ASC-covered procedure list in 2020, reports Cardiovascular Business. This shift of cardiovascular procedures to the ASC-CPL is expected to continue to grow because of the lower costs the facilities can provide. Read more.
