Tag: appropriateness
From the editor: House of Cards
On Jan. 22, 2024, the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC), together with three other major cardiology societies, submitted...
We are not ‘and vascular’: SVS set to launch ambitious new...
SVS secretary details the spirit and the cause behind the next phase of the Society’s branding campaign aimed at helping vascular surgery become an...
New analysis points to lack of vascular surgical voices in news...
A new study set to be aired at the 2024 Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS) annual meeting (March 16–20) in Scottsdale, Arizona, sheds...
Vascular Specialist’s top stories of 2023
Which stories captured the attention of the vascular community over the course of the past year? Read our summary of the trending articles from...
Society for Vascular Surgery addresses latest mainstream media reports on atherectomy
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has issued a statement addressing the latest reports published by ProPublica on atherectomy use in the U.S.
The nonprofit...
Changing course: The natural history of tibial claudication comes under scrutiny...
In the end, reflected Michael S. Conte, MD, “it’s not the evidence.” The leading vascular surgeon and peripheral arterial disease (PAD) expert made the...
Why CMS should still not extend reimbursement indications for carotid stenting...
This commentary—authored by Anne Abbott, PhD, MBBS, Lawrence Schott, MD, Lan Gao, MMed, PhD, Hrvoje Budincevic, MD, PhD, Rishad Faruqi, MD, Tatjana Rundek, MD,...
The price of a cup of coffee
In the wake of the coverage of inappropriate vascular interventions in the mainstream press, guest editorialist Adam Tanious, MD, tackles the thorny issue of...
Vascular Specialist–August 2023
In this issue:
SVS responds to New York Times exposé on overuse of vascular interventions
Long-awaited FDA update finds data do not support excess...
SVS responds to New York Times article on overuse of vascular...
In an official Society response, SVS President Joseph Mills, MD, tackles recent coverage in the mainstream media of inappropriateness in vascular care.
There have been...
Vascular Verification Program registers first four hospitals in US—including UCSF
UC San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF) is among the first four hospitals in the U.S. to be verified as part of the American College of...
SVS, ACS launch new quality verification program
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) and the American College of Surgeons (ACS) have launched the “Vascular Verification Program (Vascular-VP)," an ACS Quality Program...
From the SVS president: Supporting one another
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has a vision that is unwavering. We desire quality vascular care for all patients by providing our members...
Tying healthcare waste and spending to productivity incentives
A 74-year-old woman was recently hospitalized for a pulmonary embolus from acute deep vein thrombosis (DVT) of the mildly edematous left lower leg. She...
The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories in April 2022
The digital version of the April 2022 issue of Vascular Specialist, the most recent editorial by our medical editor focusing on diversity within the...
Increased market competition linked to higher odds of revascularization among asymptomatic...
A vascular surgery research team with a growing reputation for its work investigating appropriateness in care in the peripheral vascular bed recently uncovered an...
Priorities and objectives will guide 2022 SVS programs
Whether it’s branding, advocacy or determining research initiatives, the process of setting Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) priorities and objectives begins with SVS members....
Key players behind first SVS AUC on claudication unpack details of...
Vascular surgeons have a history of going the extra mile to do the right thing for their patients. So went the theme of one...
The top 10 most popular Vascular Specialist stories in August
Our recent editorial on the status of the interview, one of the Presidential Addresses from the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM), a slew of new...
‘Let’s move on to solutions,’ keynote speaker tells diversity, equity and...
Lee Kirksey, MD, issued an unapologetic apology of sorts at the outset of his discussion of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) issues. “If I...
Doubling down on quality: Hodgson lays out path to tackle inappropriateness...
It was supposed to occur at the canceled 2020 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM), but finally given his time at the podium, 2019–2020 Society for...
Crawford Forum on multispecialty vascular care: ‘We can work together’
New Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) President Ali AbuRahma, MD, put on an E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum at this year’s Vascular Annual...
The vasculature united: Bringing together competing specialties for better patient care
Incoming Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) President Ali AbuRahma, MD, knows the topic of this year’s E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum at the...
Town Halls to address wellness, appropriate use
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has scheduled two Town Halls for the summer—one to cover vascular surgeon wellness programs (July 13) and the...
SVS: Progress made during year like no other
While the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects dominated 2020–21 fiscal year—including the cancellation of the live 2020 Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM)—it did not deter...
The top 10 most popular stories from April
Our April cover story on the links between electronic health records (EHRs) and physician burnout, the continuing problem of manels (or all-male speaking panels)...
Study identifies ‘critical need’ for guidelines on appropriate use of atherectomy
No data currently exist to support the use of atherectomy over other procedures for the treatment of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), and the healthcare...
How to succeed in vascular surgery: A guide for the aspiring...
Disclaimer: The views expressed here do not reflect those of Mayo Clinic, the Society for Vascular Surgery, Vascular Specialist, or even the author, for...
Fempop atherectomy: Are high reimbursement amounts incentivizing inappropriate medical provider care?
Reimbursement-per-procedure for femoropopliteal atherectomy and stenting has increased at about the same rate for national providers as a whole and vascular surgeons specifically—at the...
SVS seeks volunteers for claudication Appropriate Use Criteria rating panel
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) is developing Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) for claudication using the RAND Appropriateness Method.
The AUC process consists of a...
Not Appropriate! Florida healthcare fraud case highlights inappropriateness in care
The latest research around practice patterns and appropriateness in care came shortly after a criminal case in Florida at the tail end of last...
‘Inordinate amount’ of vascular surgery’s Medicare payments go to narrow group,...
Just 1% of vascular surgeons receive “an inordinate amount” of the total Medicare payments that flow toward the specialty, with disproportionate use of outpatient...
Target 2021: SVS councils and committees drill down on key goals...
While there is little doubt the pandemic has impacted each vascular surgeon and the SVS as a Society in numerous ways, the commitment and...
Hodgson: Bringing appropriateness into sharper focus
In 2019, Kim Hodgson, MD, kicked off his presidential year by placing appropriateness and quality of care under the microscope. His turn organizing the...