After a procedure, symptoms persist
Up to 30% of patients still have angina after a successful revascularization, often because some of the disease lives in vessels too small for stents to reach. EECP works at that microvascular layer.
EECP (Enhanced External Counterpulsation) is a non-invasive flow-improving therapy that complements the rest of your cardiology care: medications, lifestyle, and any procedures your team has recommended. For many patients, it’s the next step that finally moves symptoms.
Your cardiologist may recommend medication adjustments, lifestyle changes, a stent, a bypass, or a referral for EECP, often more than one of these, sequenced over time. EECP doesn’t replace those conversations. It expands the options your team has when symptoms persist or when the small-vessel layer of the circulation is part of the picture.
Your team works up the cause of your symptoms: angiography, stress testing, imaging, and a review of risk factors. EECP candidacy is one of the conversations that can come out of this step.
Guideline-directed medications, lifestyle changes, and risk-factor management. This is the foundation. EECP is added on top of it, never instead of it.
PCI, bypass, valve repair, or device therapy when your cardiologist determines they’re the right call. EECP doesn’t compete with these decisions and doesn’t change your eligibility for them later.
A 35-session non-invasive course that addresses what medications and procedures often can’t: systemic blood flow and the microvascular layer of the circulation. Coordinated with your cardiologist throughout.
EECP fits alongside the rest of your plan. The decision to add it is always made together with your cardiologist.
EECP isn’t a decision against any other treatment. It’s a flow-improving therapy that can be added to a care plan when the right conditions are present.
Up to 30% of patients still have angina after a successful revascularization, often because some of the disease lives in vessels too small for stents to reach. EECP works at that microvascular layer.
Diffuse disease, multiple prior interventions, frailty, or other factors your cardiologist is weighing. EECP can be a useful addition to medical therapy in these cases.
You’re on the right drugs at the right doses and still limited by chest pain, fatigue, or breathlessness. EECP adds a flow-improvement mechanism medications can’t deliver.
In conversation with your cardiologist, some patients choose to add EECP to the plan they already have. Benefits often persist long after the 35-session course is complete.
EECP doesn’t close any doors. It doesn’t alter your anatomy or interfere with future imaging or procedures. Your cardiologist remains in the driver’s seat of your care plan.
Across landmark trials and patient registries, EECP has demonstrated meaningful improvements in angina frequency, exercise tolerance, and quality of life, including in patients whose cardiologists had already maximized their medical and procedural therapy.
EECP is recognized in the ACC/AHA guidelines for chronic angina as a reasonable therapy to consider when standard treatments have been maximized.
Citations available on request. EECP is not a substitute for emergent intervention. Talk to a cardiologist about which approach fits your clinical picture.
In most cases, yes. EECP is FDA-cleared, Medicare-covered for chronic angina, and recognized in ACC/AHA guidelines. We coordinate directly with your cardiologist’s office, share progress updates, and stay inside the care plan they’ve designed.
It can be. A meaningful share of patients still have symptoms after revascularization, often because some of the disease is in vessels too small for procedures to address. EECP works at the microvascular layer where those symptoms originate.
No. EECP doesn’t alter your anatomy, interfere with future imaging, or change your eligibility for future procedures. Your full care plan stays open.
35 one-hour outpatient sessions, five days a week, over seven weeks. You stay on your full cardiac medication regimen throughout. Most patients drive themselves to and from each appointment.
Medicare covers EECP for chronic angina (HCPCS G0166, NCD 20.20), and most commercial plans follow Medicare’s criteria. Our team verifies your benefits and tells you the expected cost before you commit.
A 30-minute conversation. We review your history, recent cath or stress test results, current symptoms, and what other treatments you’ve tried. If EECP is a fit, we walk you through the schedule and insurance and loop in your cardiologist. If it isn’t, we’ll tell you that too.
No surgery talk. No commitment. Just answers from the team that has helped 50,000+ patients regain energy, walk further, and feel like themselves again.