This is a growing problem for us and I seem to agree that it will help for us to communicate this with hospitals.
Please can you do some fact finding to see which hospitals conduct PCI procedures from the data so we know where to target the communication? Ying, please can you help with this.
Krissana - This will provide us with the target list. We should then draft an email or letter (whichever you think appropriate) to inform the cardiology departments about our funding policy. We should also advise departments to seek pre-authorisation for these procedures to avoid any problems for the hospital and our members.
Let me know if you have any additional thoughts about how we address this growing issue.