SCAI 2026 Building and Sustaining Your RDN Program-The Community Model: Expanding Comprehensive HTN Care, Dr. Khuddus

The Community Model: Expanding Comprehensive HTN Care, Dr. Khuddus

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The speaker described building a renal denervation (RDN) program in a community hospital, emphasizing that successful RDN requires a comprehensive hypertension program—not just a procedure service. Over 10 years of experience helped his team refine workflows, shared decision-making, referral pathways, multidisciplinary collaboration, and payer navigation. He stressed early patient education, introducing RDN as an option from the first visit, and setting realistic expectations about blood pressure improvement, safety, and the months-long process from referral to treatment. Hospital buy-in depends on both clinical justification and financial strategy, including growth potential and prevention of patient out-migration. He also highlighted the importance of out-of-office blood pressure monitoring, secondary hypertension workup, and standardized care pathways. The discussion concluded that different practice models can work, but all require structure, teamwork, and active clinician involvement to appropriately evaluate and treat patients with hypertension.

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Keywords

renal denervation

hypertension program

community hospital

blood pressure monitoring

shared decision-making

multidisciplinary collaboration