In a significant victory for PAD patients and their surgeons, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is offering national Medicare coverage for supervised exercise therapy (SET) beyond the hospital setting to include a physician’s office or a hospital outpatient setting.

The SVS Foundation expands its mission and delineates its vision to support new programs and goals. 

VESAP4 set to debut soon, including a companion app that will let users access the program off-line and then sync with the desktop version. 

Vascular surgeons in a community practice think of themselves first and foremost as surgeons – not business people.

Yet they are indeed running a business, with payrolls, payment processing, background checks on potential employees, insurance issues, and many other tasks.

SVS’ new Affinity Portfolio offers two solutions for those who spend more time than they wish on practice management and less time than they want seeing patients: ADP and TSYS.

And SVS membership confers with it savings on both products.

TSYS Merchant Solutions

Though uncommon, some vascular complications could cost you more than swollen feet, according to the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS)

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 26, 2018 – Things they said would happen during pregnancy: morning sickness, big tummy, food cravings. One thing they may not have mentioned: Huge changes to your circulatory system.

A new Harvard research study suggests that vascular surgeons should consider insulin dependency when determining treatment for chronic limb-threatening ischemia in patients with diabetes.

Dr. Daugherty, associate vice president at the University of Kentucky, will discuss his research at the SVS Vascular Research Initiatives Conference in May. His talk, "Angiotensin II and Cellular Complexity of the Aorta, a Recipe for Aneurysmal Location," is the second annual Alexander W. Clowes Distinguished Lecture. Register today for the Vascular Research Initiatives Conference.

Two interviews from prominent vascular surgeons Dr. Bhagwan Satiani and Dr. Garcia-Toca are featured to discuss the importance of adding leadership to the learning portfolio of vascular surgeons everywhere.

Does your disability insurance plan have you covered? The SVS has teamed up with Principal® to help members guard their incomes as vascular surgeons in the event of disabling illness or injury.

It's not too late to join the SVS Vascular Quality Initiative’s (SVS VQI) surveillance project to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of trans-carotid artery revascularization (TCAR) in comparison with carotid endarterectomy (CEA). Additional information about the project can be found at vsweb.org/TCARSurveillance.