Registration for the ASE 2021 Virtual Experience closes on August 31, 2021, at midnight Eastern Time. Register now to have on-demand access until September 15, 2021, and earn up to 58 CME/MOC points! View some highlights here.
All the live networking events and Q&A sessions were recorded, so you can experience what happened live as well as the pre-recorded presentations.
During the month of August, two members of the ASE staff were recognized for Going the Extra Mile and received a GEM award!
Read what their nominator, Vincent Sorrell, MD, FASE, had to say about them!
Do you know an ASE member who’s gone the extra mile? Join us in celebrating ASE members who are making the world a better place, be it for their dedication to the field of cardiovascular ultrasound, being an outstanding mentor to students or fellows, their commitment to quality patient care, a milestone service anniversary, or congratulating them on a major accomplishment. Learn more about how to nominate someone here.
ASE’S Comprehensive Strain Imaging is your go-to guide for everything related to strain technique and application.
Join Editors Thomas Marwick, MBBS, PhD, MPH, MD, and Theodore Abraham, MD, FASE, on Monday, August 16, 2021 at 6:00 PM ET, for a celebratory virtual book launch previewing ASE’s latest textbook. This free webinar event will introduce everything the new textbook covers and provide insights from the authors.
In honor of this virtual book launch, we are offering special author-signed copies of the textbook to anyone who purchases the book and includes CompStrain in the coupon code field when purchasing. This code is only valid through August 30, 2021.
To purchase your book or sign up for the webinar, please following these instructions.
ASE has been successful in the approval of a new CPT code for 3-Dimensional imaging, an add on code for adult transesophageal echocardiograms and pediatric transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiograms. The new CPT code has a proposed valuation of 0.50 physician wRVUs and 1.17 practice expense RVUs for a total RVU of 1.67. ASE would like to ask your assistance in supporting the proper valuation of this code. CMS has requested copies of paid invoices for 3-Dimensional echo software and transthoracic echo and transesophageal echo probes. This is to substantiate to CMS that there are additional costs associated for these imaging tests; this additional data is needed so that hospitals and practices can be properly reimbursed. Without ASE providing these paid invoices, CMS is likely to go online for their assessment of equipment costs which are usually much lower than the actual cost labs incur.
This is a confidential process, and we are asking for you to block out your institution or practice name and location from the paid invoice. We will only share these invoices with CMS. Unfortunately, quotes are not accepted. Ideally, these paid invoices should be within the last 24 months, but any submission would be helpful.
ASE must submit the invoices to CMS by September 1, 2021, so we request this information no later than August 30, 2021. Please contact ASE’s VP of Health Policy and Member Relations, Irene Butler, with any questions and to email the invoices.
The ASE Council on Cardiovascular Sonography is proud to announce Kathy Olejnik, BS, RDCS, ACS, FASE, as this month’s Sonographer Volunteer of the Month.
Learn more about Ms. Olejnik and how she got involved in cardiovascular ultrasound, began volunteering for ASE, and more here.
Registration for the ASE 2021 Virtual Experience closes on August 31, 2021, at midnight Eastern Time. The sooner you register, the more time you have to access this one-of-a-kind educational content and earn up to 58 CME/MOC points! View some highlights here, then register today to have access to all the other fantastic content until September 15, 2021.
All the live networking events and Q&A sessions were recorded, so you can experience what happened live as well as the pre-recorded presentations. Don’t miss out, register today!
What Attendees are Saying About ASE 2021
“Fantastic, highly academic program and exceptional delivery”
“It was the best virtual learning experience I have ever had!”
The ASE Echo Image Calendar has become a very popular member renewal gift over the past seven years. Members are encouraged to upload cardiovascular images for the 2022 Image Calendar Contest by Monday, August 9. Please include a brief description of your image. Voting for the favorite images to be included in the colorful, 12-month calendar will close on Tuesday, September 7. All members who renew by December 31, 2021 will receive the 2022 calendar in the mail*.
To upload your images, head to the ASE 2021 Calendar Contest Library on Connect@ASE:
Please note that this competition is open to members only. If you have any questions, please contact Arissa Cooper at ACooper@ASEcho.org.
*Not including members who live in locations that are not served by the USPS
The current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography (JASE) will be ending his term on December 31, 2022, and the search is underway for the exceptional person who will take on leading JASE’s editorial efforts. Applications are due August 15, 2021.
The successful candidate will begin working closely with the current Editor-in-Chief, Michael H. Picard, MD, FASE, on July 1, 2022, to ensure a smooth transition. Learn how to apply here.
Please submit applications and direct any questions to Deborah R. Meyer, JASE Managing Editor, at DMeyer@ASEcho.org.
Karen G. Zimmerman, BS, ACS, RDCS, RVT, FASE, and L. Leonardo Rodriguez, MD, FASE, FACC, accepted the offer six years ago to become the founding editors of CASE, ASE’s cardiovascular imaging case reports journal. Their tenure ends this coming Sunday. ASE is incredibly grateful to them both for their vision and exceptional leadership. Alan S. Pearlman, MD, FASE, JASE Emeritus Editor-in-Chief and ASE Past President, put it best in his recent congratulatory remarks to them. “Starting from scratch, founding co-Editors-in-Chief Karen Zimmerman and Leonardo Rodriguez have done an amazing job in developing an established and highly regarded open access Journal that uses well-written and clearly illustrated case reports to provide effective teaching points. The next CASE Editor-in-Chief is fortunate to inherit editorial responsibility for CASE from two dedicated, hard-working All-Star Founding Editors.” Our collective hats off to them as the journal transitions under new leadership.
On July 19, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the calendar year (CY) 2022 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS)/Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Proposed Rule. The rule will be posted in the Federal Register on August 4, 2021 with comments due to CMS no later than September 19, 2021.
What you need to know:
More information:
ASE’s Advocacy Committee will be providing comments to CMS on behalf of ASE. Once the rules are finalized, we will provide a webinar for members to review the changes and impacts.
