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Sidecar Health is an American health insurance company headquartered in El Segundo, California. The company offers major medical plans for midsize and large companies based in Ohio, Georgia and Florida with members across 44 states.
Reinsurance sidecars, conventionally referred to as "sidecars", are financial structures that are created to allow investors to take on the risk and return of a group of insurance policies (a "book of business") written by an insurer or reinsurer (henceforth re/insurer) and earn the risk and return that arises from that business.
With a maximal stress test the level of exercise is increased until the person's heart rate will not increase any higher, despite increased exercise. A fairly accurate estimate of the target heart rate, based on extensive clinical research, can be estimated by the formula 220 beats per minute minus patient's age.
Health insurance costs are a major factor in access to health coverage in the United States. The rising cost of health insurance leads more consumers to go without coverage [1] and increase in insurance cost and accompanying rise in the cost of health care expenses has led health insurers to provide more policies with higher deductibles and other limitations that require the consumer to pay a ...
Preventive cardiology also deals with routine preventive checkup though noninvasive tests, specifically electrocardiography, fasegraphy, stress tests, lipid profile and general physical examination to detect any cardiovascular diseases at an early age, while cardiac rehabilitation is the upcoming branch of cardiology which helps a person regain ...
The instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR, sometimes referred to as the instant wave-free ratio or instant flow reserve) is a diagnostic tool used to assess whether a stenosis is causing a limitation of blood flow in coronary arteries with subsequent ischemia. iFR is performed during cardiac catheterisation (angiography) using invasive coronary pressure wires which are placed in the coronary ...
The power of prognosis from a myocardial perfusion scan is excellent and has been well tested, and this is "perhaps the area of nuclear cardiology where the evidence is most strong". [ 13 ] [ 16 ] Many radionuclides used for myocardial perfusion imaging, including rubidium-82 , technetium-99m and thallium-201 have similar typical effective ...
Recent studies have underscored the diagnostic effectiveness and cost-efficiency of implantable loop recorders (ILRs) in specific patient populations. In patients with unexplained palpitations, especially those with infrequent symptoms, ILRs have shown a significantly higher diagnostic yield compared to conventional methods.