PAD procedure overuse: A field in peril or 'a few bad apples'?
Furthermore, in at least some cases, patients without any symptoms were encouraged to be screened for blockages that were then treated invasively, according to the, positioned his practice as"life and limb saving.
The statement issued by Mills, the president of SVS, noted that the society's practice guideline proposes a threshold of at least 2 years of likely durability for an intervention performed for claudication. "The government is really to blame for setting these tremendously high reimbursement values without looking into whether these procedures are helping people or are just worthless procedures or, in fact, are hurting people," Dipankar Mukherjee, MD, a vascular surgeon and chief of vascular surgery at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Virginia, said inThe result, noted NYU's Rao, is that"there can be perverse or nefarious incentives for doing these procedures.
Recognizing that the situation posed a threat to patients and also damaged the credibility of his specialty, Kim J. Hodgson, MD, a former SVS president,at the 2021 Vascular Annual Meeting,"Somebody has to address what should never have been allowed to get to this level of threat to us and our patients in the first place. We can play whack-a-mole every time the bad actors surface until the cows come home, but that leaves a trail of harmed patients and wasted resources.
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