Advocacy News Archive

Physician Fee Schedule

• CMS to Increase Physician Payment Rates in 2003 2/27/03
• Update on Medicare Provider Conversion Factor 2/27/03
• 2003 Final Rule Published in Federal Register 12/31/02
• Medicare Announces Physician Fee Schedule for 2003 (12/20/02)
• CMS Delays 2003 Physician Fee Schedule (11/07/02)
• Federal Register (6/28/02)
  Medicare Program; Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 2003; Proposed Rule (49 pages, PDF, 361k)
• SVU Acts on Proposed 2002 Medicare Rates (11/06/01)
• New Ultrasound Rates for Medicare (08/14/01)

HIPAA

CMS announces HIPAA Final Rules 2/13/03

OIG (Office of Inspector General)

OIG Posts FY 2003 Work Plan (10/02/02)

Department of Labor

Dept of Labor Reclassifies "Sonographers" (12/21/01)

Standards

SVU Supports Movement on Consistent Standards Between JRC’s (11/09/01)

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

HCFA Prohibits Carrier's Automatic Denials of Pre-op Evaluations (6/20/01)

2002

• Three prominent vascular societies to hold joint Annual Meeting beginning in 2004 (08/02/02)

2001

• SVT Forms Practice Standards Committees (6/26/01)
• SVT Prevails in Montana Licensure Attempt (6/04/01)
• HCFA Publishes Supervision Requirement Program Memorandum (PM) (4/19/01)
• Letter to HCFA re: PM (5/03/01)
• SVT Adopts Standards for Undergraduate VT Educational Programs (01/18/01)
• SVT Adopts Standards for Undergraduate VT Educational Programs (01/18/01)
• Stark II Modifes Direct Supervision Requirements 01/09/01
• The Value of Screen Examinations
  01/05/01 Letter to Prevention Magazine

2000

• SVT Advances Vascular Technology Concerns on Capitol Hill 12/07/00
• Massive National Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) Edit Change 11/30/00
  SVT Reimbursement Advisor Frank West, RN BSN RVT FSVU
• Report from the National Health Outcomes Conference 11/11/00
  — Inaugural issue of The Kanter Letter
• Panel Examines Work Conditions 11/15/00
• ICD-9-CM Codes Updated October 1, 2000 10/01/00
• Congress Orders Study of Credentialing

1999

• SVT Assumes Medicare Carrier Lead
• Report of the Sonography Coalition Meeting 10/99
• Legislative Watch News 4/99
• HCFA's prospective payment system for hospital outpatient services (HOPPS) - 2/99 SVT Views