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Patient and Clinical Characteristics Associated with Readmission Among Patients Undergoing Vascular Surgery
Readmission following vascular surgery intervention is frequent, costly, and often considered preventable. Vascular surgery outcomes have recently been scrutinized by Medicare, given high rates of readmission. We determine patient and clinical characteristics that predict readmission in a cohort of vascular surgery patients.
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - October 28, 2013 Category: Surgery Authors: Travis L. Engelbert, Sara Fernandes-Taylor, Prateek K. Gupta, K. Craig Kent, Jon Matsumura Tags: Abstracts from the 2013 Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society Annual Meeting Source Type: research

Sunshine Act Reveals Large Differences in Industry Payments to Vascular Specialists and Suggests Potential for Scientific Bias
We examined payments made to vascular specialists during the first year of this program.
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - August 22, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: John Blebea, Ritoban Sen, Harry Ma, Rafael Malgor, Kevin Taubman Tags: Abstract from the 2015 Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society Annual Meeting Source Type: research

Geographical Variations in Industry Payments to Vascular Surgeons
The Affordable Care Act mandated the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to collect from medical manufacturers all payments made to physicians. We reviewed such payments to vascular surgeons and examined their geographical variability.
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - August 22, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: John Blebea, Ritoban Sen, Harry Ma, Rafael Malgor, Kevin Taubman Tags: Abstract from the 2015 Eastern Vascular Society Annual Meeting Source Type: research

The Impact of Surgical Care Improvement Project Measures on In-Hospital Outcomes following Elective Vascular Procedures
As part of the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP), a national quality partnership of organizations including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention implemented several perioperative guidelines regarding antibiotic, venous thromboembolism (VTE), and beta-blocker prophylaxis for surgical patients. We evaluated the effect of SCIP on in-hospital surgical site infections (SSI), graft infections, VTE, myocardial infarctions (MIs), cardiac complications, mortality, and length of stay following elective major vascular surgery.
Source: Annals of Vascular Surgery - August 9, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Kenneth R. Nakazawa, Natalia N. Egorova, John R. Power, Peter L. Faries, Ageliki G. Vouyouka Tags: Vascular & Endovascular Surgery Society Source Type: research

Transition From Current Accuracy Measures in the Vascular Laboratory Will Be Required for Future Accreditation and Payment Models
The Medicare Accessibility and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act (MACRA) brings with it increased regulatory requirements not traditionally addressed by standard vascular laboratory (VL) accreditation, which is based on accuracy. The Intersocietal Accreditation Commission new Quality Improvement project may satisfy an Improvement Activity (IA) of MACRA. We hypothesize that other IAs in MACRA, such as timeliness of test results or patient care Quality Performance requirements, can be met by analyzing data already collected by the VL.
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - July 20, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Mounir J. Haurani, M. Dennis Kise, Patrick S. Vaccaro, Bhagwan Satiani Tags: Abstract from the 2017 Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society Annual Meeting Source Type: research

Disparity in Medicaid Physician Payments for Vascular Surgery
Medicare reimbursements are standardized nationwide on the basis of resource-dependent inputs of physician time, intensity, and practice and malpractice costs, whereas Medicaid payments are determined by individual states. Our objectives were to determine Medicaid reimbursement to physicians for common vascular procedures and to compare Medicaid payments with Medicare.
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - July 20, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Jennifer L. Perri, Robert M. Zwolak, Richard J. Powell, Charles D. Mabry, Lori A. Gurien, Samuel D. Smith, Steven C. Mehl Tags: Abstract from the 2017 New England Society for Vascular Surgery Annual Meeting Source Type: research

Endovascular surgery is not protective against new persistent opioid use development compared to open vascular surgery
CONCLUSIONS: Patients undergoing vascular surgery are at high risk for new persistent use. Undergoing endovascular carotid or venous surgery was associated with an increased risk of NPOU, whereas no differences were found between endovascular and open approaches for peripheral arterial or aortic disease.PMID:34128428 | DOI:10.1177/17085381211024514
Source: Vascular - June 15, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Craig S Brown Nicholas H Osborne Hsou M Hu Dawn Coleman Michael J Englesbe Jennifer F Waljee Chad M Brummett Chandu Vemuri Source Type: research

Overview: interpretation of vascular diagnostic testing
The noninvasive vascular laboratory has evolved to be an essential element in the evaluation of patients with arterial and venous disease. Vascular diagnostic testing and its interpretation form the basis for decisions of medical treatment, hospital admission, intervention, and need for additional testing. Vascular testing must be precise, reproducible, and accurate. Assuring quality vascular laboratory diagnostics is a constant challenge, and is linked to the knowledge and experience of the vascular technologist(s) performing the studies and the physician interpreters. In 1991, the Intersocietal Commission for the Accredi...
Source: Seminars in Vascular Surgery - January 24, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Dennis F. Bandyk Source Type: research

Accreditation status and geographic location of outpatient vascular testing facilities among Medicare beneficiaries: The VALUE (Vascular Accreditation, Location & Utilization Evaluation) Study
Conclusions: Findings suggest that the proportion of outpatient vascular testing facilities that are IAC accredited is low and varies by region. Increasing the number of accredited vascular testing facilities to improve test quality is a hypothesis that should be tested in future research.
Source: Vascular Medicine recent issues - October 10, 2014 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Rundek, T., Brown, S. C., Wang, K., Dong, C., Farrell, M. B., Heller, G. V., Gornik, H. L., Hutchisson, M., Needleman, L., Benenati, J. F., Jaff, M. R., Meier, G. H., Perese, S., Bendick, P., Hamburg, N. M., Lohr, J. M., LaPerna, L., Leers, S. A., Lilly, Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Outpatient Vascular Care: Good, bad or ugly?
BY ANISH KOKA Filling in the holes of recent stories in the New York Times, and Propublica on the outpatient care of patients with peripheral arterial disease Most have gotten used to egregiously bad coverage of current events that fills the pages of today’s New York Times, but even by their now very low standards a recent telling of a story about peripheral artery disease was very bad. The scintillating allegation by Katie Thomas, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Robert Gebeloff is that “medical device makers are bankrolling doctors to perform artery clearing procedures that can lead to amputationsâ€...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Anish Koka Medical Devices Outpatient vascular care Source Type: blogs

Regional intensity of vascular care and lower extremity amputation rates
Objective: Because patient-level differences do not fully explain the variation in lower extremity amputation rates across the United States, we hypothesized that variation in intensity of vascular care may also affect regional rates of amputation and examined the relationship between the intensity of vascular care and the population-based rate of major lower extremity amputation (above-knee or below-knee) from vascular disease.Methods: Intensity of vascular care was defined as the proportion of Medicare patients who underwent any vascular procedure in the year before amputation, calculated at the regional level (2003 to 2...
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - February 4, 2013 Category: Surgery Authors: Philip P. Goodney, Kerianne Holman, Peter K. Henke, Lori L. Travis, Justin B. Dimick, Therese A. Stukel, Elliott S. Fisher, John D. Birkmeyer Tags: Clinical research studies Source Type: research

Unplanned readmissions after vascular surgery
In this study, we characterize the frequency and causes of 30-day unplanned readmissions after elective vascular surgery.Methods: Patients who underwent elective carotid endarterectomy (CEA), endovascular aortic repair (EVAR), open abdominal aortic aneurysm (oAAA) repair, or infrainguinal bypass grafting (BPG) were identified from the American College of Surgeons (ACS) National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) 2011 database (n = 11,246). Multivariable logistic regression was used to determine variables that contributed to 30-day unplanned readmissions for each surgery type.Results: The unadjusted unplanned rea...
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - November 18, 2013 Category: Surgery Authors: Prateek K. Gupta, Sara Fernandes-Taylor, Bala Ramanan, Travis L. Engelbert, K. Craig Kent Tags: Clinical research studies Source Type: research

Clinical characteristics associated with readmission among patients undergoing vascular surgery
Objective: Readmission after a vascular surgery intervention is frequent, costly, and often considered preventable. Vascular surgery outcomes have recently been scrutinized by Medicare because of the high rates of readmission. We determined patient and clinical characteristics associated with readmission in a cohort of vascular surgery patients.Methods: From 2009 to 2013, the medical records of all patients (n = 2505) undergoing interventions by the vascular surgery service at a single tertiary care institution were retrospectively reviewed. Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics were examined for association with ...
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - December 23, 2013 Category: Surgery Authors: Travis L. Engelbert, Sara Fernandes-Taylor, Prateek K. Gupta, K. Craig Kent, Jon Matsumura Tags: Clinical research studies Source Type: research