Revaluing ablation therapy: History, recent developments, and future Heart Rhythm Society strategy

Christopher F Liu; Andrew D Krahn; Fred Kusumoto; Kimberly A Selzman; Amit J Shanker; Emily P Zeitler; Daniel P Morin; 2021–2022 Heart Rhythm Society Health Policy Committee

doi:10.1016/j.hrthm.2022.07.015

Revaluing ablation therapy: History, recent developments, and future Heart Rhythm Society strategy

Heart Rhythm. 2022 Sep;19(9):1566-1568. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2022.07.015. Epub 2022 Jul 19.

Authors

Christopher F Liu¹, Andrew D Krahn², Fred Kusumoto³, Kimberly A Selzman⁴, Amit J Shanker⁵, Emily P Zeitler⁶, Daniel P Morin⁷; 2021–2022 Heart Rhythm Society Health Policy Committee

Affiliations

¹ Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.
² University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.
³ Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida.
⁴ George E. Wahlen Veteran's Affairs Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah.
⁵ St. Lawrence Health System, Potsdam, New York.
⁶ Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
⁷ Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 35868520
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2022.07.015

No abstract available

Keywords: Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Atrial fibrillation ablation; Health policy; Reimbursement; Relative value unit; Supraventricular tachycardia.

MeSH terms

Atrial Fibrillation* / surgery
Catheter Ablation*
Humans
Tachycardia, Supraventricular* / surgery