Tag: Advocacy
The power of grassroots and grasstops advocacy
The progress in congress can seem overwhelmingly slow, especially considering the 118th Congress has only passed 27 pieces of legislation while holding over 700...
Government Grand Rounds: How SVS members can contribute to actively support...
While advocacy consistently maintains a top spot among the list of priorities for SVS members, there remains a degree of uncertainty among many in...
SVS executive director elected to executive council of Council of Medical...
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Executive Director Kenneth M. Slaw, PhD, has been elected to executive council of the Council of Medical Specialty...
SVS submits comment letter on Medicare fee schedule to CMS
In September, the Society for Vascular Surgery submitted a detailed comment letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in response to...
Amplifying advocacy: SVS tool for vascular influence on the federal stage
In the dynamic arena of healthcare advocacy, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) stands as a champion, harnessing the power of amplification to thrust...
Advocacy exists to serve: Surgeons, patients and our mission
One of the most gratifying aspects of working to advocate for surgeons is that, at its heart, this is completely transparent and is done...
VAM is ‘in the room where it happens’
To borrow from the hit musical “Hamilton,” VAM 2023 takes place right near Washington, D.C., the seat of power, and “the room where it...
VAM 2023: Learn at lunchtime
The Society for Vascular Surgery has added four lunchtime learning sessions to the VAM opening day.
Topics are both clinical and non-clinical, ranging from planning...
Advance: Navigating the policy and political processes on Capitol Hill
The underlying processes associated with advocacy—whether legislative, regulatory or political—are arduous and complex. As a result, measures of “success” are often characterized by progress...
Government Grand Rounds: Educating through advocacy
Since the initial launch of the Cancer Moonshot in 2016, the cancer community has made tangible progress towards ambitious goals, including accelerating scientific discovery...
SVS member elected to RUC committee
SVS member David Han, MD, has been re-elected to the American Medical Association (AMA) Relative Values Scale (RVS) Update Committee (RUC). Han’s two-year term...
Government Grand Rounds: Culture of engagement
Welcome back to Government Grand Rounds, where the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Advocacy Council discusses how sustained advocacy engagement is important for all...
New Government Grand Rounds series highlights how perspective matters in advocacy
Matthew Sideman, MD, and Megan Marcinko, MPS, unveil new advocacy column aimed at drilling into the actions of Congress, and how they impact vascular...
Spotlight: SVS members take up new positions, make endowment
Sean Lyden, MD, is now chief medical consultant for VESTECK and has joined the VESTECK Scientific Advisory Board. VESTECK is an early-stage medical device...
New SVS series zeroes in on government’s impact on vascular surgery
Starting next month, the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) will begin a series of articles focusing on how the actions of Congress and regulatory...
SVS ends 2022 with latest ‘Week of Action’ to prevent Medicare...
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) issued its thanks to December “Week of Action” participants.
Once again, SVS members showed incredible support for the Society’s...
Medicare payments: Congress fails to #StopTheFullCut
Despite intense pressure from the entire healthcare provider community, Congress failed to include provisions in its year-end legislative package to fully prevent Medicare payment...
‘Week of Action’ raises awareness of SVS advocacy activities
From sending emails to lawmakers, posting on social media to amplify legislative issues, and donating to the Society for Vascular Surgery Political Action Committee...
SVS launches program to ‘REACH 535’ lawmakers
To leverage the power of direct engagement with lawmakers on the part of constituents, the SVS advocacy team is launching a grassroots advocacy plan...
SVS advocacy in action: Protecting and advancing the interests of vascular...
Deep in to the second half of the year, there is no rest for the weary regarding Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) advocacy initiatives....
New SVS president outlines priorities for his tenure as Society aims...
Michael Dalsing, MD, who took over as Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) president at the 2022 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) in Boston (June 15–18),...
Advocate or adversary? Perils baked into the relationship between physicians and...
Patients with complex illnesses may not be eligible for hospital admission unless their diagnoses meet InterQual Criteria or Milliman Care Guidelines—hurdles patients must first...