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Highlights the financial challenges and decreasing margins faced by health systems in the context of advancing interventional cardiology treatments.
C ardiovascular disease represents a leading cause of death in the United States and is responsible for 17% of national healthcare expenditures. The field of cardiology, especially interventional cardiology, has witnessed significant advancement with several innovations in the last decades. However, within the current transformative period of healthcare delivery, financial support, revenue, and margins are a major concern for health systems everywhere. Financial support for clinical care and research appears to be decreasing, and more and more hospitals are working with negative operating margins due to declining revenues.
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