Keywords: Cardiovascular, Health Care Economics, Heart Transplantation; Acute RejectionCurrent transplant surveillance relies on frequent cardiac catheterization with endomyocardial biopsy (cath EMB) to detect life threatening acute rejection. Cardiac MRI has emerged as a diagnostic tool which can characterize the myocardium. The PEACE study (R01-HL164995-01) aims to evaluate the potential for using cardiac MRI parametric mapping as a pre-cath EMB screening tool to alleviate both patient and family burden and the financial burden of cath EMB. Consistent with the recent emphasis on "Value MRI," we therefore sought to understand the potential Medicare savings, if MRI is used for transplant surveillance for healthy heart transplant recipients rather than cath EMB.
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