A real world analysis of payment per unit time in a Maryland Vascular Practice.

Purpose: In 1992, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services instituted the Resource Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) system to determine physician reimbursement. Relative value units (RVU) were assigned to each Current Procedure Terminology (CPT) code and intended to reflect the time and intensity of work. Little data exist correlating actual procedural and clinical time with respect to reimbursement within the RVU value system.

Results of a single center vascular screening and education program.

Background: Vascular screening events have become a popular way to increase vascular awareness. Most screenings programs involve multiple locations on a single date and do not explore the local impact of screening. We evaluated the economic and community impact of the Dare to C.

Remote endarterectomy: lessons learned after more than 100 cases.

Background: Bypass procedures have been the mainstay of treatment of extensive external iliac and superficial femoral artery (SFA) occlusive disease, particularly total occlusions. Since the early 1990s, reports from Europe have espoused the virtues of endarterectomy of the superficial femoral and iliac arteries from a small groin incision, but adoption in the United States has been limited. Over the past 4 years, we have explored the technical challenges and durability of this procedure and report our findings.