For Physicians
What we do here
Heart Health Center is a single-specialty cardiovascular and electrophysiology center. This page is about the facility, the procedures performed in it, and the standards it works to — the information a physician wants before a patient of theirs has a procedure here.
Referrals
Referrals go to the practice, not to the center
Patients are referred to a cardiologist or an electrophysiologist, who then books the procedure here if an outpatient setting is appropriate. To refer a patient, contact Arizona Heart Rhythm Center.
If your question is about the facility itself — what is performed here, how patients are selected, what the center is accredited for, or what happens if a case needs to transfer — the rest of this page covers it, and the office number is below.
Call the office
(602) 456-2342, ext. 3000Monday – Friday, 7:00 am – 5:00 pm. The main number reaches the clinic; extension 3000 comes through to Heart Health Center.
What we need before a case
Once a procedure is booked through the practice, our team verifies benefits, confirms the patient meets the selection criteria for an outpatient setting, and contacts the patient directly to schedule. The clinical information that has to travel with them is below.
What to include
- Patient name, date of birth, and contact details
- Referring physician and practice, with the contact for the report
- Reason for referral and the procedure being requested
- Relevant rhythm documentation — ECGs, monitor or device downloads
- Recent echocardiogram and any prior cardiac imaging
- Current medications, including anticoagulation and antiarrhythmics
- Relevant history: prior ablations or implants, comorbidities, airway or sedation concerns
- Insurance information for benefit verification
Center details for your records
- Facility
- Heart Health Center, LLC
- Address
- 1848 E. Thomas Road, Suite 200, Phoenix, AZ 85016
- Hours
- Monday – Friday, 7:00 am – 5:00 pm
Procedures we accept referrals for
Suitability for the outpatient setting is assessed case by case against written selection criteria.
Cardiac Electrophysiology
Atrial Fibrillation Ablation
Catheter treatment that isolates the tissue triggering atrial fibrillation and restores a regular rhythm.
Cardiac Electrophysiology
Atrial Flutter Ablation
Targeted ablation of the circuit in the right atrium that sustains atrial flutter.
Cardiac Electrophysiology
SVT and Other Cardiac Ablations
Ablation of accessory pathways and re-entrant circuits that cause sudden, fast heart rhythms.
Cardiac Electrophysiology
Electrophysiology Studies
A detailed map of the heart's electrical system to pinpoint the source of an arrhythmia.
Cardiac Electrophysiology
Cardioversion
A brief, controlled shock that resets an irregular heartbeat to a normal rhythm.
Cardiac Devices
Pacemaker Implantation
Placement of a small device that keeps the heart from beating too slowly.
Cardiac Devices
Defibrillator (ICD) Implantation
Placement of an ICD that detects dangerous rhythms and restores a normal heartbeat.
Cardiac Devices
Generator Replacement and Device Revision
Exchanging the battery unit of an existing pacemaker or defibrillator, and related lead work.
Cardiac Devices
Loop Recorder Implantation
A long-term monitor placed under the skin to capture infrequent rhythm events.
Cardiovascular
Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)
High-resolution ultrasound of the heart taken from immediately behind it, used before and during rhythm procedures.
Cardiac Devices
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT)
A pacing device that re-coordinates the two ventricles when a conduction delay is making heart failure worse.
Cardiac Devices
Cardiac Contractility Modulation (CCM)
An implanted device that strengthens the heart's contraction rather than changing its rhythm — for patients who are not candidates for resynchronisation.
Cardiac Devices
CardioMEMS Pressure Monitor
A pressure sensor placed in the pulmonary artery that lets a heart failure team see decompensation coming before symptoms start.
Cardiovascular
Coronary Angiogram
X-ray imaging of the coronary arteries with contrast, to find out whether and where they are narrowed.
Cardiovascular
Coronary Intervention (Angioplasty and Stenting)
Opening a narrowed coronary artery with a balloon and holding it open with a stent.
Cardiovascular
Peripheral Angiogram
Contrast imaging of the arteries outside the heart, to establish where and how severely they are narrowed.
Cardiovascular
Peripheral Intervention
Catheter treatment of narrowed arteries outside the heart, most often in the legs.
Structural Heart
PFO and ASD Closure
Closing a hole between the two upper chambers of the heart with a device delivered by catheter.
Venous
Venous Ablation
Sealing a leg vein whose valves have failed, so blood reroutes through healthy veins instead of pooling.
Venous
Sclerotherapy
Injection treatment that collapses smaller varicose and surface veins.
Venous
Venous Thrombectomy
Catheter removal of clot from a deep vein, in the narrow group of patients the evidence supports.
Cardiovascular
Right Heart Catheterization with Exercise
Direct measurement of the pressures inside the heart and lungs, at rest and during exercise.
Our Experience
Our procedural experience
Center-reported totals as of August 30, 2026. These figures describe procedure volume, not treatment success rates.
- 1,800
- Ablation procedures performed
- Performed at Heart Health Center, as reported August 30, 2026.
- 1,400
- Heart rhythm device implants
- Pacemakers, defibrillators, and other cardiac rhythm management devices.
- 1,200
- Heart catheterization procedures
- Diagnostic and interventional catheterization procedures.
Ablation platform
Pulsed field ablation, on three platforms rather than one, so the energy source and the mapping approach are chosen per case by the physician instead of dictated by what the center happens to own.
Boston Scientific
FARAPULSE PFA System
FARAWAVE PFA catheter
The pentaspline pulsed field catheter that brought PFA into mainstream practice, and the platform behind the largest real-world safety registry to date.
Pivotal trial: ADVENT — the first randomised trial comparing PFA head-to-head against standard-of-care thermal ablation (radiofrequency and cryoballoon) in paroxysmal AF. It met its safety and efficacy endpoints.
Medtronic
Affera Mapping and Ablation System
Sphere-9 catheter
An all-in-one platform: high-density mapping and both pulsed field and radiofrequency ablation delivered through a single catheter.
Pivotal trial: SPHERE Per-AF — an FDA IDE trial comparing the Sphere-9 catheter and Affera system against a conventional radiofrequency catheter and mapping system in persistent AF.
Biosense Webster
VARIPULSE Platform
VARIPULSE variable-loop catheter
A variable-loop pulsed field catheter that runs on the CARTO 3 mapping system. Heart Health Center was the first ambulatory surgery center to perform atrial fibrillation ablation with it.
Pivotal trial: admIRE — a prospective multi-center US study of pulmonary vein isolation in symptomatic drug-refractory paroxysmal AF, reporting 85% peak primary effectiveness at twelve months with minimal-to-no fluoroscopy.
- Among the first ambulatory surgery centers in the country to adopt pulsed field ablation.
- First ASC to perform atrial fibrillation ablation with Biosense Webster's VARIPULSE platform.See the announcement →
- Among the first centers to perform ablation with Boston Scientific's FARAWAVE pulsed field catheter.
- The first standalone, freestanding ambulatory surgery center in the lower 48 states to perform atrial fibrillation ablation on Medtronic's Affera Mapping and Ablation System.See the announcement →
Why this setting, and why now
Effective January 1, 2026, Medicare substantially expanded the ASC Covered Procedures List, adding hundreds of procedures for calendar year 2026 and revising its criteria to give physicians greater ability to determine the appropriate patient and setting. For many practices, outpatient cardiovascular referral is a new option.
It is not new here. Heart Health Center has been performing complex outpatient electrophysiology, including atrial fibrillation ablation, since well before the policy caught up — with the protocols, the accumulated experience, and the measurement to go with it.
Questions before you refer?
Reach the center directly and we will connect you with the physician who would perform the procedure.