CardioExchange Archive

CardioExchange, an NEJM practice community for medical professionals dedicated to improving cardiac patient care, was active from 2009 to 2015. CardioExchange fostered discussion between clinicians from across the globe.

May 13th, 2011

ProPublica Takes Aim at SCAI

Now it’s SCAI’s turn. Following its investigation of the Heart Rhythm Society’s ties to industry last week, ProPublica has now focused its attention on the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (SCAI). In the latest installment of ProPublica’s Dollars for Doctors series, Charles Ornstein writes that SCAI “received 57 percent of its revenues in 2009 from medical device and pharmaceutical makers, according to financial information on the group’s website.” SCAI’s biggest funders are the large stent makers, he reports.

“I don’t think industry is driving the delivery of health care,” Larry Dean, the immediate past-president of SCAI told ProPublica. “The companies that make stents don’t drive it either.”

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