SAAAVE enacted
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Screening Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Very Efficiently Act (S. 390) becomes law as part of the deficit reduction act. SAAAVE provides Medicare coverage of one-time ultrasound screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) for men age 65 -75 who have a history of smoking, as well as for women of the same ages with a family history of AAA, effective Jan. 1, 2007...