SVS at AVF: Advocacy, Coding, and VQI Registry Update

Strategic Priorities and Advocacy

SVS leadership outlined workforce shortages, a broken payment system, and specialty branding as top priorities, followed by a detailed look at advocacy efforts including legislative priorities on payment reform and prior authorization, the SVS political action committee, and grassroots outreach through direct constituent contact with lawmakers.

Coding, Valuation, and Practice Expense

A deep dive into CPT and the AMA relative value update committee explained how physician work, practice expense, and site of service determine reimbursement, using lower extremity endovascular codes and a venous stent practice expense revaluation as case studies, and described the years long process of updating tibial atherectomy coding.

Ten Years of the Vascular Quality Initiative

A bonus update marked a decade of the shared SVS AVF vascular quality initiative, now surpassing 1.2 million procedures across its varicose vein, IVC filter, and venous stenting registries, with new interactive dashboards for benchmarking and a national filter retrieval charter launching this year.