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Mashup Score: 6SCAI Successfully Appeals NCCI Edit for Coronary Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) | SCAI - 1 day(s) ago
CMS recently released a file that stated the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) Medically Unlikely Edit (MUE) for add-on code 92972, percutaneous coronary intravascular lithotripsy, had been set to allow payment for just one unit, as of April 1, 2024, which is inconsistent with clinical practice. SCAI sent an appeal requesting the number of units per day to be increased to better align with clinical use of IVL. CMS agreed to increase the MUE to three. This change will be made with the October 1,
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Mashup Score: 6SCAI Successfully Appeals NCCI Edit for Coronary Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) | SCAI - 2 day(s) ago
CMS recently released a file that stated the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) Medically Unlikely Edit (MUE) for add-on code 92972, percutaneous coronary intravascular lithotripsy, had been set to allow payment for just one unit, as of April 1, 2024, which is inconsistent with clinical practice. SCAI sent an appeal requesting the number of units per day to be increased to better align with clinical use of IVL. CMS agreed to increase the MUE to three. This change will be made with the October 1,
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The developing world has an epidemic of heart disease, and alternative options may help with delivery of care and cost. The LANDMARK trial looks at the latest balloon expandable platform, Myval, which was developed in India as an alternative transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI or TAVR) valve. This study at EuroPCR explored the clinical outcomes in low-risk and young (75 years or younger) aortic stenosis (AS) patients treated with TAVR and SAVR, including those with both tricuspid and bicuspid
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Mashup Score: 12EviCore Releases Update to Peripheral Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) Policy Effective July 1, 2024 | SCAI - 4 day(s) ago
Home News EviCore Releases Update to Peripheral Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) Policy Effective July 1, 2024 EviCore has released an update to their peripheral IVUS policy that has been used by Aetna to pre-authorize peripheral services since September 1, 2023. SCAI has worked with ACC, SIR, AVLS, and SVS to advocate with EviCore for changes to their guidelines. The new guidelines, effective July 1, 2024, change the peripheral IVUS policy from not routinely medically necessary to being allowed for
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Interested in finding out how the late-breaking science presented at SCAI 2024 will impact your practice? Our experts distilled what you need to know: A liberal non-fasting strategy before cardiac catheterization significantly improves patient well-being and satisfaction without compromising safety. Few studies have prospectively explored this strategy in such a diverse patient population and with such liberal non-fasting allowances, making this the most comprehensive and generalizable study on this
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Mashup Score: 5SCAI Sends Letter Opposing Proposed Medical Imaging Licensure Legislation in Pennsylvania | SCAI - 6 day(s) ago
Last week, SCAI sent a letter of opposition to the Office of State Senator Lynda Schlegel Culver (R-PA) regarding our concern for proposed legislation that would create a State Board of Medicine licensure for all medical imaging and radiation therapy professionals in the state. SCAI urged Senator Schlegel Culver to consider exemptions from licensure for our CV technologists and to defer to the existing CCI credentialing system. While this is currently only an issue in Pennsylvania, please let us know if
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Mashup Score: 9New Statement for Public Comment | SCAI - 8 day(s) ago
SCAI Expert Consensus Statement on the Management of Calcified Coronary Lesions. Feedback is requested by October 16th. The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions is now accepting comments on t he SCAI Expert Consensus Statement on the Management of Calcified Coronary Lesions. Anyone may submit comments, including SCAI members and non-member physicians and healthcare professionals, patients, caregivers, researchers, industry stakeholders, and insurance companies. If you would like to
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Mashup Score: 1Mentor Connect | SCAI - 13 day(s) ago
The SCAI’s Mentor Connect program is a community-building initiative and professional development opportunity for all participating interventional cardiologists. For a mentor, this is your opportunity to share your career story and give back to the interventional cardiology community or practice leadership skills, such as relationship building and active listening. In r eturn, the new relationships you build will give you fresh insight into others’ experiences of working in the field, encouraging you to
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Mashup Score: 63
Home News SCAI Names James B. Hermiller, MD, MSCAI, President for 2024–25 Long Beach, Calif. – James B. Hermiller, MD, MSCAI, director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship and the Structural Heart Program at St. Vincent Ascension Heart Center in Indianapolis, IN, assumed the office of president of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) today during the closing ceremonies at the SCAI 2024 Scientific Sessions in Long Beach, CA. An interventional cardiologist, researcher,
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Mashup Score: 26
Home News SCAI Presidential Year in Review From George D. Dangas, MD, PhD, MSCAI Updates from SCAI’s Presidents on the education, advocacy, and research being led by the Society on their behalf to advance clinical practice and deliver quality care. Article This past year has been among the most productive in SCAI’s history. Thanks to advocacy by our interventional cardiology Matc… Article Learn more about SCAI’s recent advocacy efforts on national issues affecting interventional cardiology.
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