Vascular Quality Initiative (SVS VQI) Announces the Expansion of Medicare Coverage to Standard Surgical Risk Patients within their TCAR Surveillance Project
The Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative (SVS VQI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of vascular care within hospitals and outpatient facilities, announces that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has expanded coverage for Transcarotid Artery Revascularization (TCAR) to include standard surgical risk patients within the VQI TCAR Surveillance Project.
- The Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative (SVS VQI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of vascular care within hospitals and outpatient facilities, announces that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has expanded coverage for Transcarotid Artery Revascularization (TCAR) to include standard surgical risk patients within the VQI TCAR Surveillance Project.
- Launched in 2016 by the SVS PSO, the TCAR Surveillance Project uses real-world registry data to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of TCAR against the standard of care, carotid endarterectomy (CEA).
- The CMS expansion of coverage decision will extend TCAR to standard risk patients in addition to high-risk patients who are currently covered under the TSP.
- Reimbursement for TCAR within the TCAR Surveillance Project will now apply to Medicare beneficiaries who are deemed to be at high risk and standard risk for adverse events from CEA.