The $100 Heart Scan Brad Gerstner Says Could Save Your Life
Sep 16, 2026 · 23:39
Brad Gerstner and Jason Chang's Center for Heart Attack Prevention aims to make the $100 coronary artery calcium CT scan the 'mammogram for the heart,' scaling to 40M scans a year to save 50,000 lives and $20B in government costs. Gerstner tells Molly O'Shea heart disease kills 800,000 Americans a year, half of heart attack victims have normal cholesterol, and the stent lobby beat the calcium scanner in Washington. Rob Goldberg tells how his brother Dave, Sheryl Sandberg's husband, died at 47 of undiagnosed heart disease despite passing a running EKG five months earlier — the death behind her book Option B. Gerstner recommends a CAC for anyone over 35, an angiogram only for non-zero scores, and a buy one, give one model; he expects Medicare and Medicaid coverage by year's end.
