Momentum matters
Although 2021 delivered us a second challenging pandemic year, both SIR and SIR Foundation maintained momentum through prudent financial planning, agility and dedication on the part of volunteers, members and staff. Read about how “Momentum Matters” in the 2021 SIR + SIR Foundation Annual Report.
In 2021, we maintained momentum by shifting gears to adapt to the virtual environment and deliver IR educational
programming, knowledge, resources, and new engagement opportunities. These ranged from new robust virtual meetings to topic-specific webinars, practice development and coding resources, significant activity in IR advocacy, early governance transformations, research advancements, grants, and meaningful investment on the part of industry partners and individual donors.
Maintaining momentum in disruptive times is no small feat, but it has enabled our society and foundation to enter into 2022 on solid footing, from which we will grow our specialty and organizations to meet the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.
—Keith Hume, executive director View the annual report at
bit.ly/2022_annualreport.
INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY CODING UPDATE
2022 SIR’s 2022 IR Coding
Update now available The 2022 edition of the Interventional Radiology Coding Update is now available in the IR Store. The update provides information critical to physicians, administrators and coders with practical advice and information on coding for common IR treatments. Download your copy for free from the IR Store, or get the bundle, which includes our updated 2022 coding book and a recording of the annual coding webinar that provides documentation tips to protect your IR practice from audits for a small fee.
Tell Congress to stop Medicare cuts
SIR is asking Congress to compel the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to retain current clinical labor wage rates rather than implement the wage adjustment contained in the FY2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) final rule. We need you to help us. Write to your members of Congress and tell them to eliminate all Medicare payment cuts and to maintain the current clinical labor pricing for 2022.
While the Protecting Medicare and American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act provided temporary relief from most of the proposed MPFS cuts, the cuts to clinical labor were not addressed. If Congress doesn’t act, some private practices could see cuts of more than 20% for certain treatments.
Join SIR members and the over 1,300 messages sent to lawmakers when you take action now via
sirweb.org/action.
New for 2022
• FAQs answered by our coding application and guidance workgroup on E&M, central venous access, arterial access, dialysis circuit, vascular interventions, vascular embolization, endovascular aneurysm repair, nonvascular interventions and more.
• Common missed coding revenue on diagnostic angiography/venography in conjunction with transcatheter therapies, diagnostic lower extremity run-off studies, additional selective arterial studies, follow-up angiography after embolization and ultrasound guidance for vascular access.
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