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Earn precious CMEs and MOCs at SVS ONLINE
Physician registrants: get a boost on collecting required continuing medical education (CME) and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Self-Assessment credits during SVS ONLINE: “New Advances and Discoveries in Vascular Surgery.” The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) is accredited by the Accreditation…
Navigate SVS ONLINE with planner
The perfect match for an online meeting? An online planner. And it makes navigating SVS ONLINE a snap. It follows the basic outline of planners from the past few iterations of the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM), with left-side navigation links…
President Hodgson to address ‘State of the SVS’
Just don’t call it the Presidential Address: Instead, on Saturday, June 20, SVS President Kim Hodgson, MD, will present a “State of the SVS” address to kick off this year’s SVS ONLINE: New Discoveries and Advances in Vascular Surgery and…
Advocating for our members
COVID-19 has altered almost all of our lives to a degree previously unimaginable. Millions of Americans continue to lose their jobs, hundreds of thousands have contracted the disease and thousands have succumbed to this virus. In hard-hit states such as…
VESAP5 on course to debut this summer
The fifth edition of the Vascular Educational Self-Assessment Program (VESAP), with a substantially enlarged section on vascular ultrasound and imaging, is on course to be introduced by Aug. 1. VESAP4 will expire on July 31. Several changes and additions, not…
In historic first, SVS holds online officer voting
Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) members voted decisively to change bylaws and permit all eligible voting members to participate in Society business decision-making. The vote came Monday, June 15, during the first session of the SVS Annual Business Meeting. The…
SVS acknowledges industry partners springing to aid of vascular community
It has recently come to the attention of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) that many of our industry partners are generously donating equipment and products to the vascular community during the COVID-19 pandemic. To shine a light on that…
Coding event set to take place Sept. 25–26
Registration has opened for the 2020 iteration of the Society for Vascular Surgery’s Coding and Reimbursement Workshop scheduled to take place from Sept. 25–26. Though it remains scheduled as a live event at the Hyatt Rosemont Hotel in Rosemont, Illinois,…
Preparing for arrival of CMS Quality Payment Program year 4
It’s here: 2020 is year four of the Quality Payment Program (QPP), established by the Medicare Access and Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (MACRA) in 2015. QPP requires that most physicians who submit claims to the Centers for Medicare…
Your SVS: Membership deadline is June 1
The next membership application deadline for 2020 is June 1. Be part of all SVS has to offer its members, including the online community SVSConnect, which has featured robust resources and conversations on COVID-19, plus free or reduced-rate subscriptions to…