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00:33:23

Venous CommUNITY Session: Closing Gaps in Access and Research

Mar 2, 2026
The AVF's Venous CommUNITY Committee session tackled two access gaps in venous care. The first panel addressed disparities in...
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9 min read

AI for Education, Research, and Practice Management in Venous Care

Oct 21, 2025
Continuing the issue's AI theme, this installment discusses how AI could personalize training simulations and competency asse...
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7 min read

CMS 2026 Fee Schedule Proposal: What Vein Specialists Should Know

Aug 5, 2025
AVF Healthcare Policy Committee chair Harry Ma, MD breaks down CMS's proposed 2026 Physician Fee Schedule, explaining two pro...
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4 min read

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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10 min read

Wound Care Advocacy Wins and Healing Honduras Vein Mission Update

Apr 8, 2025
This issue reports Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders advocacy wins, including a predictable national reimbursement rate for...
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8 min read

New AVF President Raffetto and Lymphedema Garment Coverage Update

Apr 8, 2025
This issue introduces incoming AVF President Joseph Raffetto, MD, sharing his family background, AVF history, and vision for...
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01:30:34

Venous Health Inequities: Research, Access, and Policy

Feb 18, 2025
This venous health inequities session opened with a mouse model study showing aspirin reduced thrombus formation and vein wal...
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01:30:56

AVF APP Wound Care Session: Healing the Venous Leg Ulcer

Feb 17, 2025
An APP-focused wound care session covers the full venous leg ulcer pathway: conservative care, debridement, and dressing sele...
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01:55:26

AVF APP Session: Billing, Edema Workup, and Compression

Feb 16, 2025
A dedicated APP education session spans coding and reimbursement rules for nurse practitioners and PAs, ultrasound guidelines...
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10 min read

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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9 min read

Arterial Testing and Wound Care Policy Advocacy Update

Oct 8, 2024
This issue highlights why arterial testing matters before treating venous leg wounds, noting that up to 30% of patients with...
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9 min read

Comparing Iliofemoral Thrombectomy Devices and AVF Advocacy Wins

Jul 29, 2024
This issue compares four mechanical thrombectomy devices, EKOS, Indigo Lightning Bolt, Inari ClotTriever/RevCore, and JETi, u...
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5 min read

Lymphedema Coverage Documentation and New Wearable Compression Tech

May 29, 2024
This issue focuses on lymphedema compression coverage and emerging wearable technology. It outlines what medical record docum...
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5 min read

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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01:01:51

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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7 min read

IVUS Roundtable, Leadership Program, and Medicare Update

Jan 26, 2024
This issue reports on a multispecialty roundtable published jointly by SCAI, SIR, and SVS on intravascular ultrasound use in...
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7 min read

New Varicose Vein Guidelines and Policy Navigator Findings

Nov 17, 2023
This issue details Part II of the 2023 multi-society clinical practice guidelines for managing varicose veins, jointly writte...
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00:40:14

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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01:23:24

One World, Many Voices: Equity in Venous Care

Feb 23, 2023
This session examined diversity, equity, and access across venous care. Speakers shared international perspectives on learnin...
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00:56:45

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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20 min read

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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AVLS-AVF Joint Session: Registries, Reimbursement, Outcomes

Feb 25, 2022
This joint AVLS-AVF session opened with Improving Wisely data showing peer benchmarking reduced thermal ablation overuse amon...
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01:21:41

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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