RESUMEN

Interventional cardiology has finally completed, after 26 years of advocacy, a professional hat trick: independent board certification, membership as a unique specialty in the American Medical Association House of Delegates (AMA HOD), and recognition by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) as a separate medical specialty. This article points out how these distinctions for interventional cardiology and its professional society, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), have led to clear and definite benefits for interventional cardiologists and their patients. We focus on the least understood of these three-recognition by CMS and its implications for reimbursement and quality assessment for interventional cardiologists. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Cateterismo Cardíaco/clasificación , Cardiología/clasificación , Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. , Cateterismo Cardíaco/economía , Cateterismo Cardíaco/normas , Cardiología/economía , Cardiología/normas , Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S./economía , Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S./normas , Certificación , Competencia Clínica , Humanos , Reembolso de Seguro de Salud , Indicadores de Calidad de la Atención de Salud , Sociedades Médicas , Especialización/economía , Especialización/normas , Consejos de Especialidades , Estados Unidos