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AVF Advocacy Update: Coding Wins, RUC Surveys, and Payment Reform

Jun 24, 2025
AVF's Healthcare Policy Committee chair Harry Ma, MD reports on the society's new seat in the AMA House of Delegates, coverag...
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AVF Launches DEFIANCE Trial, Advances Policy and Training

Dec 20, 2024
This issue announces AVF's partnership with Inari Medical on DEFIANCE, a multinational randomized trial comparing mechanical...
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Cybersecurity, VAM Session, and Medicare Fee Update

Apr 12, 2024
This issue reports on the Change Healthcare cyberattack's disruption to billing and prescriptions nationwide and HHS resource...
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SVS at AVF: Advocacy, Coding, and VQI Registry Update

Mar 6, 2024
This joint SVS and AVF session opened with the SVS strategic priorities of workforce growth, payment reform, and specialty br...
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AVF Toolkit: Guidelines, Member Resources and Advocacy Update

Feb 24, 2023
The AVF Toolkit session reviewed the new 2022 SVS, AVF and AVLS clinical practice guidelines part one on duplex scanning and...
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SVS-AVF Session: Registries, Education, DEI, and Advocacy

Feb 22, 2023
This joint SVS-AVF session covered four collaborative priorities. A registry update described growth of the varicose vein, IV...
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Vein Specialist Newsletter: DVT Treatment Update, Jan 2023

Jan 25, 2023
This January 2023 issue of Vein Specialist opens with editor and guest editor messages before turning to reflections on diver...
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Inside AVF Leadership: Boards, Committees, and Grants

May 1, 2022
This May/June 2022 Leadership issue introduces the full 2022 AVF Board of Directors and its 21 active committees, then gather...
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AVF Presidential Session: Committee Reports and Leadership

Feb 25, 2022
This presidential session reviewed a year of American Venous Forum committee work, including expanded research grants with Bo...
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VENOUS2022 Preview: Science, Advocacy, and Diversity

Dec 1, 2021
This December 2021 issue previews VENOUS2022 with a detailed annual meeting agenda, a rundown of top submitted abstracts acro...
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How to Submit an AVF Comment Letter to CMS on Payment

Sep 28, 2021
This quick AVF tutorial shows members how to submit a comment letter to CMS opposing proposed Medicare physician payment sche...
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DVT and PE Devices: To Stent or Not to Stent?

Sep 1, 2021
This September 2021 DVT Issue surveys the fast growing toolkit for acute pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis, compari...
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VENOUS2021 Goes Virtual: Previewing the Science

Jan 19, 2021
The January newsletter previews the first virtual annual meeting, held 17 to 20 March 2021, and walks through what each scien...

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