Catheter-based EP procedures, particularly pulmonary vein isolation, are increasingly performed among Medicare beneficiaries, a proportional trend that persisted despite the 2020 pandemic.
Rates of EP procedures have increased among Medicare beneficiaries, with catheter-based procedures now eclipsing CIEDs. Additionally, a greater proportion of catheter-based EP procedures are PVI, but they still represent a minority of all ablations. In 2020, rates of EP procedures were attenuated, yet the proportion of PVI ablations increased to over one-fourth of ablation procedures. These data have important implications for the EP workforce.
Scott et al. (Wed,) studied this question.