Action Center
Contacting your representatives is the most effective way to influence policy.
Once your Member of Congress has taken a public stance on an issue, it's harder for them to change their position. The earlier they hear your opinion, the more likely your voice will have an impact.
The volume of contacts received from constituents on different platforms is often given a greater measure of influence than a well-articulated position paper: SCAI's Action Center is a free, quick, and easy-to-use way to make your voice heard.
Practice Management Resources
Clear, easy-to-understand guidance from SCAI that ensure you get paid for the services you deliver by coding and billing correctly.
Understand the Issues
Current Campaigns
Learn how SCAI is:
- Challenging payment erosion
- Preventing claim denials and reducing delays in patient care
- Fighting America's silent killer—Peripheral Artery Disease
- Campaigning for interest-free deferment on student loans for medical interns and residents
Effect Policy Change
Public Health Advocacy Resources
From 2020 to 2021, heart disease in the United States cost $417.9 billion, including the cost of health care services, medicines, and lost productivity due to ill health.
In 2023, 919,032 people died from cardiovascular disease, that's one person every 34 seconds, equivalent to one in every three deaths.
Use these resources from SCAI to understand the causes of cardiovascular disease, how it can be treated by interventional cardiologists, saving lives and reducing the burden of healthcare costs.
Get Involved
Advocacy 101
Familiarize yourself with the playbook of advocacy strategies and understand how you can support SCAI's initiatives.
Understand how healthcare laws are made, medical devices are approved, and procedure reimbursement is determined.
Donate
Political Action Committee
Donate to the SCAI PAC and find out which federal candidates we support on your behalf to advance the issues and campaigns you care about.
Join the Campaign
Advocacy Committee
Representing the interests of fellow members and patients, SCAI's committees develop the strategies that drive our programs.
Joining SCAI's Advocacy Committee is an opportunity to help educate members, yourself, and key stakeholders about policies and positions that directly and indirectly affect all aspects of interventional cardiology and advocate for those positions.
Follow Us
The Official Hashtag for SCAI's Government Relations Campaigns Is #SCAIAdvocacy
When posting on social media, use this hashtag to join the discussion, remembering to:
- Pause before you post - content can live on indefinitely.
- Never share sensitive or privileged data, patient information, or information that could enable a patient to be identified.
