Hammond
J. Gmerice Hammond, MD, a cardiologist and health policy research fellow in the Cardiovascular Division at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a Merck Fellowship Research Award from the Association of Black Cardiologists and the American College of Cardiology.
Hammond is one of three award recipients who will be honored in a virtual ceremony May 17 as part of the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology.
Hammond, who also has a master’s degree in public health, is focused on understanding how health-care policy affects racial inequities in cardiovascular disease outcomes and whether changes in health-care policy could help reduce those inequities.
Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Quarterly Listing of Program Issuances–January Through March 2021
Health & Human Services Department & Publications
Agency:
SUMMARY: This quarterly notice lists CMS manual instructions, substantive and interpretive regulations, and other
Federal Register notices that were published from January through
March 2021, relating to the Medicare and Medicaid programs and other programs administered by CMS.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: It is possible that an interested party may need specific information and not be able to determine from the listed information whether the issuance or regulation would fulfill that need. Consequently, we are providing contact persons to answer general questions concerning each of the addenda published in this notice:
Incidence of No Culpirt Lesions and Other Key NACMI Findings
Early in the COVID pandemic last spring, cardiologists on social media shared a large number of PCI cases where a COVID-positive patient going to the cath lab with STEMI showed no culprit lesion blockages in their coronary arteries, which is usually the main cause of STEMI. There was speculation as to what the actual percentage of these presentations were, with estimates at 50 percent or more. The NACMI registry found it is lower than originally expected, but still high, at about 20 percent. Dehghani said in pre-pandemic times, this would have been classified as a false STEMI activation which occurred in 3-5 percent of STEMI cases.
April 29, 2021
Arlington, VA (April 29, 2021) The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), has released
This document, which is currently in press in the
Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (JCCT), addresses the current need for guidance in the use of cardiac CT in risk assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD) in occupational health evaluation. The document provides evidence regarding the prevalence of CAD, the incidence of major adverse cardiac events (MACE), and recommendations for enhanced cardiovascular screening and investigation for CAD evaluation amongst safety sensitive occupations.
According to Ahmad Slim, MD, FSCCT, chair of the expert consensus writing group: “This document aims to address widespread variation in occupational health evaluation, and provide consensus guidance regarding occupation and patient-specific criteria that may warrant additional enhanced screening for cardiovascular disease.”