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Educational Material
SCCT Starter Kit

This repository of useful resources designed to guide healthcare facilities which are interested in cardiovascular CT services for their patients. The kit is a one-stop collection of information that includes financial and operational planning templates, resources for clinical procedures, guides for personnel training and credentialing, device and equipment information, marketing tools, and more. Resources are available by link or for download, and subscribers have access to a Q&A/discussion forum. SCCT members have FREE access to the SCCT Starter Kit.

SCCT Starter Kit
 
Toolkits

Chest pain toolkit - This Executive Summary outlines the well-validated data for supporting widespread coverage of utilization for Coronary CT Angiography (CCTA). Citing over 30 studies the toolkit offers support of the diagnostics accuracy, clinical outcomes, societal guidelines, radiation considerations and economic impact of CCTA.

 

White paper

Healthcare Policy Statement on the Utility of Coronary Computed Tomography for Evaluation of Cardiovascular Conditions and Preventive Healthcare: From the Health Policy Working Group of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

 

Value of Cardiac Imaging/Application Evidence Dossiers

The rising cost of healthcare is prompting numerous policy and advocacy discussions regarding strategies for constraining growth and creating a more efficient and effective healthcare system. Coronary CTA (CCTA) is well-validated, with nearly 20 large clinical trials, as an equally effective, if not superior, strategy to functional testing with regards to patient outcomes and, in some trials greater improvement in symptoms, without added costs.1 Despite this evidence, the utilization and growth of CCTA remains suboptimal relative to the evidence for clinical efficiency compared to other imaging modalities.

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Video

Watch these sessions with a focus on advocacy from SCCT2019 — the 14th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, which took place in Baltimore, Md.

Effective ways to advocate for better coverage

Listen to 3 of our SCCT member volunteers discuss tactics you can use for successful local engagement of private and Medicare payers through effective communication, relationship building, leveraging of your electronic health record, and utilization of scct.org resources toward improved coverage for cardiac CT in your practice.

Panel members: Dustin Thomas, MD, FSCCT; Ahmad Slim, MD, FSCCT; Scott Jerome, DO, FSCCT; Mark Rabbat, MD, FSCCT

 

CCTA reimbursement

 

In this 25 minute webcast former SCCT Advocacy Committee Chair, Dustin Thomas, MD, FSCCT will highlight some of the challenges currently facing cardiac CT reimbursement and discusses specific interventions each SCCT member can take in their local hospital systems and payer community to improve coverage and reimbursement.