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• Calculate 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule Payment Impacts
  Work, practice, expense and liability relative value units (RVUs) are updated annually through Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rulemaking. In response to the recently released 2026 Medicare PFS final rule, the ACC has developed a PFS calculator so that clinicians and administrators can estimate...
• Beta-Blockers Failed to Reduce Death, MI or HF in Patients With Preserved LVEF
  Treatment with beta-blocker therapy did not reduce the incidence of all-cause death, myocardial infarction (MI) or heart failure (HF) in patients with a preserved LVEF (≥50%) after a recent MI, according to results of a meta-analysis presented at AHA 2025 and simultaneously published Nov. 9 in NEJM.
• JACC: Advances Addresses CV Diagnosis and Management in Geriatric Patients
  A series of research articles and a state-of-the-art review in JACC: Advances emphasize the challenges clinicians can face when working with older adult patients, addressing the relationship between dementia and other geriatric conditions and cardiovascular health, outlining the possible benefits of mobile health cardiac rehabilitation, and exploring the current and future landscape for cardiovascular imaging […]
• New Training Statement Outlines Core Competencies, Training Requirements For Advanced CV Imaging
  A new multi-society Advanced Training Statement on Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging addresses the core competencies and training requirements necessary for advanced cardiovascular imagers across all four imaging modalities – echocardiography, cardiac computed tomography (CCT), nuclear cardiology and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR).
• ACCEL Lite: How Does Imaging Guide Management in Patients with Obesity?
  In this interview, W. Douglas Weaver MD, MACC and Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, MD, FACC discuss “How Does Imaging Guide Management in Patients with Obesity?”