Immense economic pressure is mounting on cardiac clinics as providers face shrinking reimbursements and new payment models. Particularly for high-value cardiac device clinics and rhythm monitoring service lines, two key external threats create a perfect storm:

Economic Pressures : Potential Medicaid and insurance exchange cutbacks are predicted to strain traditional revenue.

The Ambulatory Shift : Cardiovascular procedures are increasingly moving from hospitals to private ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), creating new competition for inpatient-based cardiac arrhythmia procedures and long-term monitoring.

Cardiac device services represent a critical market opportunity for health systems. The sector for cardiac monitoring and cardiac rhythm management is projected to grow to $

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