Study Sees Medicare Savings From Drug-Coated Stents
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Depending on whose interpretation of a new study one wants to believe, Medicare may â or may not â have saved money since the introduction of the stents in 2003.
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NEW YORK  - For patients with several blockages in their coronary arteries, mortality rates are lower when they undergo bypass grafting rather than having the new generation of drug-eluting stents inserted, a study shows.
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - The Food and Drug Administration should consider telling patients and doctors that the use of drug-coated heart stents in unapproved, high-risk cases can lead to greater complications, a panel of medical experts said on Friday.
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Boston Scientific Corp. found a slightly higher risk of blood clotting in patients implanted with its newer drug-coated stents compared with older bare-metal versions, a company spokesman said Thursday.
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Stent makers and cardiologists said reports at this yearâs major meeting of European cardiologists bolstered their confidence in the safety of the newer drug-coated versions of the devices.
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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19 (HealthDayNews) -- New research has convinced Medicare officials that doubling or tripling the use of implantable defibrillators to treat heart failure is economically justifiable.
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - A U.S. advisory panel began hearing evidence on Thursday about potential risks of drug-coated stents, the tiny tubes used to prop open arteries in millions of heart patients.
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Medicare&#39;s new prescription drug coverage should help most elderly, including some of the poorest beneficiaries, save money, but nearly a quarter will pay more for medicine
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The Medicare program is rethinking its blanket coverage for all uses of drug-coated heart stents, a potential blow to Boston Scientific Corp. , Johnson &amp; Johnson, and others in the $6 billion-a-year industry.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 1 (HealthDayNews) -- Between 1996 and 2000, the annual number of Medicare patients who had renal artery interventional procedures, where angioplasty or a stent clears arteries connected to the kidneys, more than doubled.
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An outside panel of health experts will examine whether drug-coated stents used to prop open coronary arteries can produce sometimes fatal blood clots, the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday.
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NEW YORK - Johnson &amp; Johnson and Boston Scientific Corp. reported new safety data yesterday for drug-coated stents that may help revive sales depressed by prior reports linking the devices to a higher risk of heart attacks.
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Taxpayers could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if soaring Medicaid reimbursements for prescription medicines more closely matched
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The most exhaustive studies yet published on drug-coated stents show that the widely used heart devices are no better at preventing heart attacks and death than the older, cheaper devices they replaced, and in some cases may be slightly worse.
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Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday will consider the risks of drug-coated stents in patients with medical complications who are not approved for the artery-opening heart devices.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson's drug-coated Cypher heart stent may be better than Boston Scientific's Taxus for repeat procedures to unclog some arteries, according to a study in the Jan. 12 Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Drug-coated stents -- tiny wire-mesh tubes used to prop open clogged heart arteries -- may not be as dangerous as earlier thought, Swedish researchers who had raised concerns over the devices said on Sunday.