Doctors, hospitals and medical-device makers are battling over whether a popular but risky medical procedure for replacing defective heart valves should be offered more widely
A battle has broken out among doctors, hospitals and medical-device makers over whether an increasingly popular but risky medical procedure for replacing defective heart valves should be offered more widely.
The fight is over which hospitals can get paid by the federal government to perform the procedure, often referred to as TAVR, for transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Currently, bigger hospitals that perform the procedures more frequently are favored under federal reimbursement policies—based on studies linking volume...
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