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What happens at your first cardiac electrophysiologist appointment?

Cardiac electrophysiologists see patients in a clinic and perform procedures in an operating room. Your first visit will be similar to any other doctor's visit. The doctor will take a history and perform a physical examination. These questions and exams will be focused on the heart. A unique test that electrophysiologists commonly order is ambulatory heart monitoring. This test requires you to wear a small cell phone-sized heart monitor for up to two weeks. Any time you have symptoms, you push a button on the device which allows the electrophysiologist to see the electrical activity of the heart at the moment you are having symptoms.

* Savings estimate based on a study of more than 1 billion claims comparing self-pay (or cash pay) prices of a frequency-weighted market basket of procedures to insurer-negotiated rates for the same. Claims were collected between July 2017 and July 2019. R.Lawrence Van Horn, Arthur Laffer, Robert L.Metcalf. 2019. The Transformative Potential for Price Transparency in Healthcare: Benefits for Consumers and Providers. Health Management Policy and Innovation, Volume 4, Issue 3.

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