Rationale for ST-elevation myocardial infarction call compensation by healthcare systems.

Radical changes to our nation’s healthcare system will affect remuneration for both hospitals and interventional cardiologists yet these very same directives may allow for specific areas of synergy and collaboration toward the common good, for hospitals, physicians and most importantly for the patients we serve. Accordingly, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) supports a strategy of supplemental reimbursement for interventional cardiologists who participate in emergent call for patients suffering an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). While the practice of medicine is often considered an art, the delivery of healthcare is a business. In the Peter L. Duffy Srihari S. Naidu