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TRAILBLAZER HEALTH ENTERPRISES, LLC

Vascular diagnostic study may be personally performed by a physician or a technologist. The accuracy of non-invasive vascular diagnostic studies depends on the knowledge, skill and experience of the technologist and physician performing and interpreting the study. Consequently, the physician performing and/or interpreting the study must be capable of demonstrating documented training through recent residency training or post-graduate CME and experience, and maintain that documentation for postpayment review.

All non-invasive vascular diagnostic studies, when performed by a technologist, must be performed by a technologist who has demonstrated competency in ultrasound by receiving one of the following credentials in vascular ultrasound technology:

Registered Vascular Specialist (RVS).
Or,

Registered Vascular Technologist (RVT).
The RVS and RVT credentials are provided by the following nationally recognized organizations*:

RVT by the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (ARDMS).
RVS by Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI).
Alternately, such studies must be performed in a facility or vascular laboratory accredited by one of the following nationally recognized accreditation organizations*. If a vascular laboratory or facility is accredited, the technologists performing non-invasive peripheral venous studies in that laboratory are considered to have demonstrated competency in vascular ultrasound:

American College of Radiology (ACR) Vascular Ultrasound Accreditation Program.
Or,

Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories (ICAVL).