Tag: Advocacy

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...
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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...
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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...