Comparing younger veterans' elective percutaneous coronary interventions and coronary
artery bypass grafts performed in Veterans Affairs medical centers (VAMCs) with those …

We congratulate Kovach et al 1 for their paper addressing the impact on long-term clinical
outcomes of residual ischemic disease among a cohort of patients from the US Department …

REFERENCES 1. Gössl M, Faxon DP, Bell MR, Holmes DR, Gersh BJ. Complete versus
incomplete revascularization with coronary artery bypass graft or percutaneous intervention …

Importance The Veterans Affairs (VA) Community Care (CC) Program supplements VA care
with community-based medical services. However, access gains and value provided by CC …

THE EMERGENCE OF SPECIALTY HOSPITALS THAT FO-cus on lucrative procedural
aspects of medicine has generated a heated debate among policy makers1, 2 that largely …

Demonstration of health care qualityis now mandated by payers and built into financial
incentives for most US health care administrators. Bonuses for many frontline physicians are …

Objective: We sought to quantify Veterans Health Administration (VA) patients' utilization of
coronary revascularization in the private sector and to assess the potential impact of …

Current US and European guidelines recommend coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) over
percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD) and …

Importance More than 1 million US veterans are dually enrolled in a Medicare Advantage
(MA) plan and in the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system. The federal government …

This work leverages an important collaboration between the American College of
Cardiology and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons to combine their procedural PCI and …