Society Expresses Concerns Over CMS's 2014 Outpatient Proposals
SCAI is voicing serious concerns over CMS’s 2014 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System(HOPPS) proposed rule. SCAI opposes the proposed establishment of comprehensive, “super” bundled...
View ArticleCMS 2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Ruling Released
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its 2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule. The rule sets the payment rates for all services paid to physicians for Medicare...
View ArticleSCAI Fights to Reverse New York State Policy That Misuses AUC, Potentially...
This week SCAI communicated objections to a policy recently enacted in New York State that would recoup Medicaid payments to physicians and hospitals for elective percutaneous coronary interventions...
View ArticleCMS Grants Physician Specialty Designation for Interventional Cardiology
SCAI has received official confirmation that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has granted SCAI’s request for a new physician specialty designation for Interventional Cardiology....
View ArticleNational Quality Forum Opens Public Comments for Cardiovascular Measures
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has announced a public comment period between now and June 25 regarding 12 measures. Many of these measures were developed in collaboration with SCAI, ACC, AHA,...
View ArticleSCAI Fellows Take Interventional Cardiology’s Messages to Capitol Hill
This week, SCAI President Charles Chambers, MD, FSCAI, and members of the Society’s Advocacy Committee spent two days talking with policymakers, including a number of elected officials and their staff.
View ArticleVoice of Interventional Cardiology: SCAI Members Offer Insights on Advocacy
An increasing number of SCAI members are stepping into federal, state and local policymaking arenas to advocate for patients’ access to cardiovascular care. This month, two SCAI members published...
View ArticleSCAI Encourages ABIM to Go Further with Proposed Revisions for Part 2 MOC
In a comments letter submitted today to the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Council “Part 2” Committee Members, SCAI President-elect James C. Blankenship, MD, MSc, FSCAI, MACC commends ABIM...
View ArticleAdvocacy Watch: Society Working for YOU on Multiple Fronts
SCAI advocacy efforts solely on the behalf of you and your patients is a key pillar in the Society's mission to promote excellence in invasive and interventional cardiovascular medicine. It also only...
View ArticleAdvocacy Watch: Society Working for YOU on Multiple Fronts
SCAI advocacy efforts solely on the behalf of you and your patients is a key pillar in the Society's mission to promote excellence in invasive and interventional cardiovascular medicine. It also only...
View ArticleSociety Urges Changes to Sunshine Rule to Exclude Education Materials
SCAI joined over 100 medical societies and associations in supporting bipartisan legislation -- HR 5539 -- that would exempt medical textbooks and journals, as well as indirect payments that...
View ArticleOregon Issues Draft Coverage Guidance Significantly Restricting PCIs
The Oregon State Health Evidence Review Commission has issued an initial draft of coverage guidance that would deny coverage of PCI for patients with SIHD over age 75 and for those with multi-vessel...
View ArticleCMS 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Ruling Released
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule. The rule sets the payment rates for all services paid to physicians for Medicare...
View ArticleAdvocacy Watch: Society Working for YOU on Multiple Fronts
SCAI advocacy efforts solely on the behalf of you and your patients is a key pillar in the Society's mission to promote excellence in invasive and interventional cardiovascular medicine. It also only...
View ArticleSCAI-PAC Backed Candidates Score Big Wins on Election Night
As 2014 election results rolled in on Tuesday night, SCAI-PAC Chair Thomas Tu, MD, FSCAI and SCAI-PAC Director Wayne Powell paid special attention to the results for 11 Congressional candidates who...
View ArticleInsurance Commissioners Urged to Provide Specialty Care Access
Concerned about patient access to specialty care, SCAI and its Alliance of Specialty Medicine partners recently submitted comments to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) in...
View ArticleHighlights of the 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule: Provisions...
CMS released the 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Final Rule on October 31, 2014. The Final Rule includes the interim values assigned by CMS for all new codes that go into effect on Jan. 1,...
View ArticleWellPoint/Anthem Restrictive Coverage Policy Raises Concerns
Last month WellPoint/Anthem, the second largest private insurance company in the U.S. sought the Society's feedback on its draft coverage policy on OutPatient Cardiac Catheterization.
View ArticleSociety Testifies in Support of Limited FDA Approval of Watchman Device
Zoltan Turi, MD, MSCAI testified on behalf of SCAI on Wednesday to the FDA Circulatory System Devices Panel, recommending that the FDA approve the WATCHMAN left atrial appendage occluder "for patients...
View ArticleSCAI Convinces Oregon HERC that SIHD Draft Policy Needs Revision
Following an initial draft of coverage guidance issued by the Oregon State Health Evidence Review Commission (HERC) that would deny coverage of PCI for patients with SIHD over age 75 and for those...
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