Dr. Joseph Rogers Shares Insights With TCTMD

The Texas Heart Institute’s Dr. Joseph G. Rogers recently spoke with Michael O’Riordan for the interventional cardiology news site, TCTMD, about the potential consequences of recent policy changes by the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for advanced heart failure patients. He shared his insights as an expert on heart failure, heart transplantation, and mechanically assisted circulation (including the use of left ventricular assist devices, or LVADs).

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For Some, Hopes for a Heart Grow Dim as LVAD-Only Centers Spread

The CMS decision to decouple LVAD-only centers from transplant centers is having unintended consequences, experts say.

by Michael O’Riordan

JANUARY 30, 2023