PHILADELPHIA -- Heart failure is a major, and costly, medical problem. The mean cost for one hospital stay is $15,000, and many patients are in the hospital again and again. But a tiny device is ...

A draft report from the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) analyzes CardioMEMS and finds that the device's price would impose "excessive cost burdens" on the health care system. Marie ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The reader aims to provide patients and clinicians with daily data to help detect and address the progression of heart failure.

Boston Millennia Partners is pleased to announce that its portfolio company, CardioMEMS, Inc., an Atlanta based medical device company, has accepted a $60 million investment from and granted a $375 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In late May, the FDA approved the CardioMEMS HF System for the measurement of pulmonary artery pressure and ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Heart failure is one of the most common reasons why seniors end up in the hospital. But a tiny, new device is helping to prevent that. Congestive heart failure can be very ...

The FDA's Circulatory System Devices Panel sent a mixed message to the FDA today about CardioMEMS Champion HF Pressure Measurement System. The small implantable device provides provides daily ...

In a bid to fortify its Heart Failure business, Abbott ABT recently announced the start of the — GUIDE-HF clinical trial — largest heart failure medical device study in the United States. The trial ...

The CHAMPION trial demonstrated a 58% reduction in all-cause hospital readmissions (hospitalization for any reason) and a significant 78% fall in HF hospital readmissions when patients were treated ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, today announced a new data analysis from the CHAMPION clinical trial that evaluated outcomes in a subgroup of patients with ...

Atlanta-based CardioMEMS Inc., developer of an implantable wireless device that helps physicians monitor blood pressure in heart patients, may be breathing a little easier following a federal panel’s ...

A local Medicare contractor issues a final ruling declining to cover CardioMEMS, the wireless, implantable heart failure management device from St. Jude Medical. Arundhati Parmar St. Jude Medical has ...