The American College of Cardiology has launched a new registry, which offers data insights on cardiac procedures performed in the ASC setting.
The registry is the first of its kind, signaling cardiology's growing interest in migrating to the ASC setting.
Cardiology continues to become the next frontier for ASCs, with CMS adding percutaneous coronary interventions to the ASC-covered procedures list in 2020. The additions have created a growing interest from private equity firms.
The registry allows ASCs to measure and compare their patient care and outcomes to similar procedures performed in the hospital outpatient setting.
Participants in the registry will have access to resources available to National Cardiovascular Data Registry participants, including benchmarks and comparisons, procedures data, hospitalization rates, emergent transfer rates, medications, efficiency rates, adverse events and bleeding events occuring only in ASCs.