Articles

September 21, 2018 • Article

NHLBI September 2018 Notification

NHLBI has extended the combined number of years of K training support from six to eight years for the K08 and K23 grants.  This means that for clinician scientists with K08 or K23 awards they can stay on a K12 or KL2 program for up to three years and then request a five year individual K award.  This is geared for clinicians who received institutional K training, and it is to help support transition from training to independent investigators.

September 20, 2018 • Article

SVS Working Hard to Protect Vascular Surgeons, Medicine in CMS Proposals

Proposed Rules Include Substantial Cuts to Vascular Labs After reviewing proposals from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Society for Vascular Surgery has drafted comments to mitigate potentially substantial negative effects on SVS members.

September 20, 2018 • Article

FISCAL HEALTH CHECKUP: Be Sure To Assess Disability Insurance

Wellness checks aren’t just for physical health. They’re for fiscal health as well. SVS members might want to do such an assessment of their disability insurance coverage: Are plans paid for with pre-tax or after-tax dollars? Is the rate locked in? Members just might be significantly under-insured. SVS offers individual disability plans with three companies – Principal Life Insurance Company, Standard Life and Lloyd’s – through its Affinity Program of expanded benefits.

September 20, 2018 • Article

AAA Guideline Translated into Spanish

The Society for Vascular Surgery has translated the updated guidelines on abdominal aortic aneurysms into Spanish, aimed at the large population of Spanish-speaking vascular surgeons. The translated guideline — a pilot project to gauge interest in such work — already is available. The SVS International Relations and Document Oversight committees collaborated on the translation.

September 20, 2018 • Article

Course Focuses on Reimbursement, Risk and Red Tape

Why should vascular surgeons or their coding staff attend the SVS Coding and Reimbursement Workshop? The short answer is: reimbursement, risk and red tape. Or, as workshop instructor Sean Roddy, MD, puts it: “Maximize your appropriate reimbursement, limit your risk of audit and avoid red tape.”