Articles

Consulting

• The Roadmap to Cardiovascular Excellence: Strategic Steps for Hospital Leaders
• Is Your Cardiac Surgery Program Ready for CMS’s TEAM Model?
• CMS Final FY26 IPPS and CY26 OPPS Updates: What Hospitals, Physicians, and ASCs Need to Know
• Time is Brain: Why Regional Stroke Networks are the Key to Thrombectomy Access
• Building a Culture of Accountability: Using Registry Data to Engage Physicians and Drive Performance

Recruitment

• How AI and Automation are Transforming Recruitment

Consulting

• Changing Priorities in Cardiology Physician Alignment Structures: Increases in Private Equity and Other Trends
• Raising the Bar: Why Stroke Coordinators Should Be Retitled As Stroke Program Managers
• Game-Changing Opportunities in Outpatient Cardiology
• Advancing Your Heart Failure Program: Current Trends & Future Therapies
• Does Total Joint Replacement Surgery Have Staying Power in Outpatient Settings?
• A Glass Slipper? The Right Fit for Specialty Service Expansion
• The Growing Need for EP Services in the Elderly Population
• Leadership in Action: Enhancing Electrophysiology Labs to Improve Patient Outcomes
• Peripheral Vision: Evaluating Vascular Procedures in Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Settings
• Specialty Spotlight: Integrating Cardiology Into an ASC
• Understanding ACA in 2025: Coverage, Cost, and Subsidies Explained

Accreditation

• Trinity Health Grand Rapids Heart & Vascular Spotlight
• Breaking Barriers: Bringing Advanced Cardiac Care to Rural Communities

Consulting

• Long Overdue: It’s Time for All Providers to Develop an Ambulatory Strategy
• Strategic Planning: A Missing Element for Physician Practice Success
• Should We Start a Structural Heart Program?
• Cardiology Codes ASC Leaders Need to Know
• The Cost of Disruptive Behavior in the Operating Room
• Is Your Cath Lab Offering Comprehensive Treatment for Atrial Fibrillation?
• Optimizing Stroke Program Efficiency: A Guide for Resource Allocation
• The Crisis of Paramedic & EMS Shortages: A Rural Emergency
• CMS 2025 Updates – Inpatient & Outpatient

Accreditation

• A Shift in Cardiovascular Care: Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs), Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD), and Peripheral Vascular Interventions (PVI)

Recruitment & Interim Management

• Make Staff Retention a Priority
• Spoiler Alert: Finding the Right Cardiologist is Proving Difficult for All
• Ghosting in Healthcare Recruitment: Unveiling the Causes & Strategies to Prevent it

Consulting

• What is the Right Medical Management Model for Your ICU?
• Enhancing Neuroscience Care: Achieve Exceptional Patient Outcomes With Optimal Operational Efficiency & Financial Success
• Recovering from Revenue Shortfalls in Surgical Services
• Cardiac Procedures: Is an ASC The Right Move? The Devil is in the Details
• Elevating Stroke Care: Navigating the Transition from Primary Stroke to Comprehensive Centers
• Thrombectomy Unveiled: Who’s Behind The Life-Saving Procedure?
• The Feasibility of the Hybrid OBL/ASC Model for Cardiovascular Procedures: Does it Work for You?
• Taking Your Stroke Program to The Next Level
• Artificial Intelligence and Innovative Clinical Devices: Who is Paying for These Technological Advances?
• Revitalizing Rural Health: Navigating Challenges and Innovating Solutions in Rural Healthcare

Accreditation

• The Evolving Role of Chest Pain Center Accreditation
• Improving Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Peripheral Vascular Disease: Enhancing Patient Outcomes and Quality of Life
• Why Corazon Accreditation for Cardiovascular Services?

Recruitment & Interim Management

• Meeting Staffing Challenges Using Interim Professionals: A Win-Win

Consulting

• Mechanical Thrombectomy: The Right Clinical, Economic, and Moral Decision for Your Hospital
• The Cardiovascular Shift to the Outpatient Setting
• Update on a Novel Outpatient Approach to Atrial Fibrillation
• Taking Your Heart Failure Program to the Next Level
• Decision-Making Through Data
• The Need for Increased Access to Mechanical Thrombectomy for Large Vessel Occlusion Strokes in the US
• Mandatory Bundles or Not, It’s Time to Prepare Your Program

Accreditation

• Accreditation Beyond Heart Month: A Strategic Decision in 2022
• Wayne Memorial Hospital Cath Lab Spotlight

Recruitment & Interim Management

• Generational Challenges in Physician Recruitment

Consulting

• At the Heart of the Game: Leadership and Governance for a Market Advantage
• Cardiac Cath Procedural Labs: Positioning Yourself for the Future
• Raising the Ante: Migrating to Multi-Use Interventional Space in the Development of Stroke Programming
• The FY 2022 Reimbursement Outlook: The Cath Lab Impact

Accreditation & Peer Review

• An Essay on the History of Medical Peer Review in the United States
• The Clinical Value of Accreditation as Proven Through Results

Consulting

• Evolution of Care Within the Ambulatory Surgery Center
• Leverage Resources to Integrate Planning Efforts for Cardiovascular and Neuroscience Programs
• The Rationale for a Chest Pain Center Approach

Accreditation

• Continuous Quality Improvement: Operational Drivers & Clinical Impact

Recruitment & Interim Management

• COVID’s Strain on Physician Collaboration and Communication: “Special Sauce Needed”

Consulting

• Cardiovascular Care Coordination Strategies and Their Effects on the Patient Experience
• Change and Challenge: Understanding the Finances of the Electrophysiology Lab
• ECMO Programs: A Financial Synopsis
• Electrophysiology Continues to Thrive in Labs with Off-Site Surgical Backup: Key Steps to Bring These Services to Your Lab
• Freestanding Ambulatory Surgery Centers: A New Strategy for Cardiovascular Services?

Accreditation

• The Outcomes of Accreditation: A Snapshot of Program Improvements

Recruitment & Interim Management

• Interim Professionals: A Value Proposition

Consulting

• A Tribute to Dr. Thomas P. Wharton From the Corazon Team
• Cardiac Cath Lab Performance: Strategies to Measure Up
• Curbing the Atrial Fibrillation Epidemic Using the A-Fib Clinic Model
• Gaining Efficiencies Through Parallel Program Management: Cardio and Neuro
• Planning for the Next Phase of Interventional Care: The Combined Interventional Platform
• The Future of Spine Care: Rethinking Collaboration Among Hospitals
• The Near-Term in Orthopedics, Neuroscience, & Spine: Innovations is Not Enough
• The Pendulum Swings Back for Cardiovascular Services

Accreditation

• Accreditation as a Program Strategy: Understanding Options for Achieving Excellence

Recruitment & Interim Management

• Interim Management: Long-Term Value from a Short-Term Placement
• An Invasive Disaster: A Cath Lab Without Leadership
• Engaging Your Docs: Strategies for Initial and Ongoing Retention of Key Physicians

Consulting

• 4 Strategies to Prepare for Changes in Reimbursement
• Balancing Act: Setting the Stage for Efficient Utilization of EP/Cardiac Cath Labs Now and Into the Future
• Episode Payment Models: Ensuring Readiness for Reimbursement Changes
• In the Unlikely Event: Optimal Care Strategies for Stroke in the Cath Lab
• Helping Your Hospital Help Your Practice
• Patient Navigation for Spine
• Reducing Readmissions and Optimizing Patient Outcomes with Transitional and Chronic Care Management Codes
• The Base of the Spine “Consultation Chain” – Primary Care Physicians
• The FY 2018 Reimbursement Outlook: The Cath Lab Impact
• What’s In and What’s Out for 2017? Rightsizing Cardiovascular Services
• Workgroups to Drive Sustainable Success: Preparing for the Evolution of Cardiac Bundles

Accreditation

• A Tribute to PCI: Celebrating 40 Years and Counting!

IT Solutions

• Using Cutting-Edge Technology to Reinforce Best Practice Stroke Care: Real Results Demonstrate Success

Physician Practice & Alignment

• Physician/Hospital Alignment & Communications: Strategies to Ensure Collaboration
• Physician/Hospital Alignment Models: Strategies for Success

Recruitment & Interim Management

• Shifting Program Trends and the Impact on Recruitment: Compensation Survey Results for the CV Service Line
• A Vacancy as Opportunity: Interim Management or Permanent Placement as a Catalyst for Program Change

Consulting

• Bundled Payment for Total Joint Replacement
• Building a Bridge: EMS Relations as a Foundation for Rapid Stroke Care
• Cath Lab Dashboard Development: Identifying Metrics
• Enhancing Expertise in the Cath Lab: The Impact of the Clinical Ladder
• Establishing a Cardiovascular Institute: Foundational Elements
• Neuro Strategic Planning: Foundational Steps for a Worthwhile Effort
• Streamlining Spine Care for Improved Margins
• The Role of Program Personnel in Driving Quality Processes and Outcomes

Accreditation

• Perspectives on PCI Program Accreditation in Pennsylvania: Value, Rationale, and Results