1/5/09 - New Appropriateness Criteria Guide Treatment of Patients with Heart Blockage RELATED - Download the "Appropriateness Criteria for Coronary Revascularization"
12/22/08 - SCAI Announces New Partnership with The Endovascular Forum; Encourages Members to Join for Free 11/25/08 - SCAI Statement on Possible Interaction between Anti-Clotting Medications and a Type of Heartburn Medication 11/10/08 - SCAI's Online ABIM MOC Resource Simplifies Recertification 10/31/08 - 2009 Medicare Fee Schedule Includes Increases for Interventional Cardiology 10/16/08 - Help Convince Medicare to Cover Proven Stroke-Prevention Procedure 10/16/08 - SCAI Urges CMS to Reconsider Decision on Carotid Artery Stenting 10/14/08 - SCAI Statement: Stress Testing Prior to Angioplasty in Medicare Patients in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Dr. Bonnie Weiner presents results from the COURAGE (Clinical Outcomes Utilizing Revascularization and Aggressive Drug Evaluation) Trial
7/2/09 - FDA Issues Alert on Smoking Cessation Aids, Chantix and Zyban 7/2/09 - New AMA Resources Help Physicians Understand Risk Assessment and Adjustment Models 7/1/09 - CMS Posts Updated 2009 PQRI Implementation Guide 6/30/09 - IOM Report on Top 100 CER Priorities Lists PCI, Peripheral, Imaging 6/29/09 - Practical EHR Meaningful Use Standards Encouraged by SCAI 6/29/09 - U.S. Congress Encouraged to Take Quick Action on Comparative Effectiveness 6/25/09 - SCAI Concerned Over Attempts to Eliminate Incentives for Developing Biologics 6/25/09 - CMS Unveils Web Resource on Recovery Act and Health Information Technology 6/18/09 - SCAI Opposes CMS Proposal to Disallow Reporting of Peripheral Angioplasty with Atherectomy 6/18/09 - Societies Fight Additional Imaging Cuts CALL TO ACTION: Call Congress Now to Preserve Patient Access to Quality Specialty Care 6/17/09 - CMS Posts List of Registries Qualified to Submit Data for PQRI Purposes 6/17/09 - SCAI Concerned Inclusion of RBMs Could Impair Patient Care 6/5/09 - Society Backs Comparative Effectiveness Research Act GUIDELINES 5/6/09 - SCAI Consensus Statement on Length of Stay Following PCI Appropriateness Criteria for Coronary Revascularization Carotid Artery Revascularization and Endarterectomy (CARE) Registry Link to CARE Registry Link to Whitepaper 2007 Focused Update of the ACC/AHA/SCAI 2005 Guideline Update for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Guidelines on Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation and Care for Noncardiac Surgery PDA Tools Other Guidelines and Quality Programs
NEW! May/June 2009 issue of SCAI News and Highlights online June 2009 issue of SCAI Journal Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions Now Online Seconds-Count.org Offers Plavix/Prasugrel Sheet for Physicians Dr. Hijazi's March President's Page: IFI and ICI Offer Unifying Curriculum for Physicians Worldwide SCAI's Guidewire to MOC Online Resources Makes Recertification Easy SCAI's website for patients and their non-interventional caregivers, including our Interventional Physician-Locator tool "Straight from the Experts" - Blogs from seconds-count.org President’s Pages SCAI's Reporter's Guide to Interventional Cardiology