{"id":6195,"date":"2025-04-03T14:13:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T11:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/?p=6195"},"modified":"2025-04-03T14:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T11:13:23","slug":"new-scanners-and-strategies-for-the-golden-age-of-ccta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/new-scanners-and-strategies-for-the-golden-age-of-ccta\/","title":{"rendered":"New Scanners and Strategies for the \u2018Golden Age of CCTA\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>New Scanners and Strategies for the \u2018Golden Age of CCTA\u2019<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Highlighted by AHA<\/div>\n<div>Dave Fornell | Experience Stories |\u00a0 GE Healthcare | March 2025<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Key Points:<\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 CCTA Expansion: Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) is growing rapidly due to increased adoption, new technologies, and improved reimbursement policies.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Reimbursement Boost: Medicare has doubled CCTA outpatient reimbursement to $357 in 2025, encouraging more widespread use.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 New Scanner Technologies: GE Healthcare is introducing more affordable and AI-powered CT scanners to improve imaging quality, streamline workflow, and expand accessibility.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 AI Integration: AI enhances image reconstruction, automates protocol selection, and enables advanced plaque analysis and FFR-CT for better risk assessment.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Efficiency Gains: Faster scanning reduces motion artifacts, eliminates the need for beta-blockers, and supports emergency department (ED) chest pain evaluations.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Future Outlook: Increased CCTA adoption is expected to improve early disease detection, reduce hospital admissions, and optimize cost-efficiency in cardiac care.<a href=\"https:\/\/aiin.healthcare\/\"> https:\/\/aiin.healthcare\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Scanners and Strategies for the \u2018Golden Age of CCTA\u2019 Highlighted by AHA Dave Fornell | Experience Stories |\u00a0 GE Healthcare | March 2025 Key Points: \u2022 CCTA Expansion: Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) is growing rapidly due to increased adoption, new technologies, and improved reimbursement policies. \u2022 Reimbursement Boost: Medicare has doubled CCTA outpatient reimbursement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6196,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195\/revisions\/6196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}