FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Natalie Costantino
919-297-7170
NCostantino@ASEcho.org  

American Society of Echocardiography Recognizes
Record Number of 2025 Industry Roundtable Partners

(DURHAM, NC, March 13, 2025)—The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) is proud to announce its 2025 Industry Roundtable (IRT) Partners—the largest group in the program’s history, with 23 companies joining this vital collaboration. This milestone comes as ASE celebrates its 50^th Anniversary and continues to advance the future of cardiovascular ultrasound through innovation, education and industry partnerships.

The ASE IRT program fosters collaboration between industry leaders, practitioners, and scientists with the shared goal of enhancing patient care by improving cardiovascular ultrasound imaging quality. These partnerships play a crucial role in driving research, shaping clinical guidelines and accelerating the adoption of emerging technologies.

From March 14-16, 2025, the 2025 IRT Partners will convene in New York City for the annual ASE Industry Think Tank, an exclusive forum for discussing key trends impacting clinical practice and industry innovation. This year’s Think Tank explores critical topics, such as emerging technologies, workforce challenges, and evolving care models, ensuring cardiovascular ultrasound remains at the forefront of patient care.

2025 ASE IRT Partners:

• Abbott
• Alnylam
• AstraZeneca
• Bracco
• BridgeBio
• Bristol Myers Squibb
• Cytokinetics
• EchoIQ
• Edwards Lifesciences
• Edwards Lifesciences TMTT
• Edwards Lifesciences Surgical Division
• Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corp. (Cardiovascular Ultrasound)
• Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corp. (Medical Informatics)
• GE HealthCare
  (Cardiovascular Ultrasound)
• GE HealthCare
  (Pharmaceutical Diagnostics)
• Intel
• JenaValve
• Lantheus
• Pfizer
• Philips Healthcare
• Siemens Healthineers
• Ultromics
• Visura Technologies

“The ASE IRT Partners are instrumental in shaping the future of cardiovascular ultrasound,” said Linda Gillam, MD, MPH, FASE, chair of the ASE Industry Relations Committee. “Their collaboration drives innovation, improves clinical standards and ultimately enhances patient outcomes. As ASE celebrates its golden anniversary, we recognize the contributions of our industry partners in advancing the field and ensuring its continued impact on cardiovascular care.”

For more information about ASE’s IRT Program, visit ASEcho.org/IRT.

About American Society of Echocardiography
The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) is the Society for Cardiovascular Ultrasound Professionals™. ASE is the largest global organization for cardiovascular ultrasound imaging serving physicians, sonographers, nurses, veterinarians, and scientists and as such is the leader and advocate, setting practice standards and guidelines for the field. The Society is committed to advancing cardiovascular ultrasound to improve lives. In 2025, ASE is celebrating its milestone 50^th anniversary.  For more information, visit the ASE website ASEcho.org or social media pages on Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Instagram and Bluesky.

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The deadline to submit comments was March 31, 2025.

An upcoming ASE guideline is accepting public comments regarding the, “Guidelines for the Standardization of Adult Echocardiographic Reporting: Recommendations for the American Society of Echocardiography.”. This document provides an update to the previously published 2002 guideline on the required components for a comprehensive echocardiography report. Once the guideline is completed, it will be published in the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography.

Guideline Overview:
This document focuses on the final phases of the imaging life cycle, specifically reporting and communicating exam results. Additionally, this guideline delineates core measurements and statements applicable to transthoracic, transesophageal, and stress echocardiography. It also elucidates abbreviations, acronyms, terminology, and definitions to enhance communication across various echocardiography (echo) labs, institutions, and healthcare systems.

Public Comment Purpose:
The aim of the public comment period is to offer involvement and engagement in the guideline development process. This will help ensure that our guideline recommendations provides comprehensive standardization of adult echocardiographic reporting.

Rationale:
The authors and The American Society Echocardiography (ASE) seek feedback from our constituents to gain impartial input regarding key recommendations.

Disclaimer: All documents and materials produced by ASE are protected under intellectual property rights. Unauthorized distribution, duplication, or use of any such materials is strictly prohibited.

The Public Comment period has passed. If you have feedback you would like to provide please email Guidelines@ASEcho.org.

Effective January 1, 2025, the new CPT code 0932T – Noninvasive detection of heart failure derived from augmentative analysis of an echocardiogram that demonstrated preserved ejection fraction, with interpretation and report by a physician or other qualified health care professional will replace the previous HCPCS outpatient code C9786.

This code will be available for use in both the physician office and hospital outpatient settings. Additionally, this service will continue to be covered in the hospital inpatient setting using the New Technology Add-on Payment (NTAP) code XXE2X19.

Questions about coding? ASE provides members access to a coding expert. Log in to your ASE Member Portal and click “Advocacy,” then “Ask A Coding Expert” to submit your questions.

A correction was published in the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography (JASE) as an Article in Press on April 25, 2024, for the guideline entitled, “Guidelines and Recommendations for Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography and Cardiac Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.”

The correction has been made to both the guideline article in JASE and the PDF on ASE’s guideline webpage. Read the Article in Press.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Angie Porter
919-297-7152
APorter@ASEcho.org

DURHAM, NC, April 8, 2024)—The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) is pleased to recognize 17 Industry Roundtable (IRT) Partners for 2024.

This represents a significant milestone and the largest number of IRT Partners in the program’s decades-long history. The ASE IRT program is a partnership between industry, practitioners, and scientists with the shared objectives of improving patient care through improving the quality of cardiovascular ultrasound imaging. These partnerships also help shape and impact the future of the field toward outcomes-driven innovations.

2024 ASE IRT Partners include:

• Abbott
• Bracco
• Bristol Myers Squibb
• Cytokinetics
• Edwards Lifesciences
• Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corp. (Cardiovascular Ultrasound)
• Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corp. (Medical Informatics)
• GE HealthCare (Cardiovascular Ultrasound)
• GE HealthCare (Pharmaceutical Diagnostics)
• Intel
• JenaValve
• Lantheus
• Pfizer
• Philips Healthcare
• Siemens Healthineers
• Ultromics
• Visura Technologies

G. Burkhard Mackensen, MD, PhD, FASE, Chair of the ASE Industry Relations Committee said, “The ASE Industry Roundtable Partners create invaluable alliances which foster the development of informed cardiovascular professionals, cutting-edge technology and products, standardized procedures, and more favorable legislative environments. Our partners fuel ASE’s programmatic efforts in advancing strategic initiatives within echocardiography, encompassing areas such as quality, standardization, automation, research, outreach, and beyond.”

For more information on ASE’s IRT Program visit ASEcho.org/IRT.

The American Medical Association (AMA) Physician Practice Information (PPI) Survey is nearing completion (June 30), and we urgently need all selected physicians to actively engage in this effort.

Today an email was sent to 500 practices for the first time from ppisurvey@mathematica-mpr.com to join the survey. Mathematica, a well-regarded consulting firm, is helping the AMA run this survey. Your practice may receive an email and a USPS mail packet from Mathematica that contains a link to the survey as well as supporting information. We urge you to speak with your practice management colleagues to determine if they have received these communications and ask them to complete this important survey.

The intent of the survey, which has been endorsed by over 170 medical societies and other healthcare associations, is to collect updated and accurate data on practice costs which are key element of physician payment. These data have not been updated since last collected over 15 years ago. It is critically important to update these data to ensure accurate payment.

In the coming weeks or months, you may be asked to complete this two-minute survey. Help us help YOU to update Medicare physician payment.

The CASE editorial team is pleased to announce that the Special Issue on Adult Congenital Heart Disease, with current ASE President, and pediatric cardiologist, Benjamin W. Eidem, MD, FASE, as guest editor is available today! Vincent L. Sorrell, MD, FASE, CASE Editor-in-Chief, notes that, “Congenital heart disease is the most common birth defect diagnosed in nearly 1% of all U.S. births. Two-thirds of this population are now over 18 years old due to advances in medical and surgical care. In fact, every year there are nearly 20,000 new ACHD patients. I think you will agree when you read this collection of reports that there are many examples provided in one place to help educate your colleagues, sonographers, trainees, and students wherever you work. We are so thankful for the many authors who took the time to provide their case reports for us to learn from.”

This Special Issue provides over 30 high-quality cases to explore on common and uncommon imaging findings that encompass typical and atypical presentations of patients encountered in an adult echocardiography lab.  The cases include descriptions of a wide range of congenital heart diseases, provide steps in image acquisition unique to the pathology and repair, describe the incremental role for collaborative multimodality imaging, and educate through patient examples using fascinating figures and videos you will undoubtedly keep on hand for future reference.

CASE is ASE’s open access journal allowing you to share these reports with colleagues across the globe.

February is American Heart Month and ASE has released two new guidelines:

• Guidelines for Performing a Comprehensive Pediatric Transthoracic Echocardiogram: Recommendations From the American Society of Echocardiography
• Guidelines and Recommendations for Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography and Cardiac Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography

Read the two new guidelines on our Guidelines web page.

We extend our congratulations to ASE and ASEF Treasurer Cynthia Taub, MD, MBA for being named Edward C. Reifenstein Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Upstate Medical University!

View the press release from Upstate Medical University here.

On March 14 at 8 PM ET, interact with your colleagues as ASE’s Twitter Journal Club reviews the newest guideline, Recommendations for Cardiac Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Children: A Report from the American Society of Echocardiography

Register for the Twitter Journal Club here!

CME/MOC Information:

• 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (Pending Approval)

Moderators:

• Kelly Boegel, ACS, RCCS, RCS, FASE (@boegel_kelly)
• Kanwal M Farooqi, MD (@Kfarooqi)
• Enrique Garcia-Sayan, MD, FACC, FASE (@EGarciaSayan)

Guest Authors:

• Jimmy C. Lu, MD, FASE (@Jimmy_C_Lu)
• Neha Soni-Patel, MEd, RCCS, RDCS, FASE (@nehasonipatel)

Learning Objectives:

1. Define the appropriate uses and indications for cardiac POCUS in pediatric patients.
2. Specify the technical considerations and equipment required to perform cardiac POCUS in children.
3. Outline the imaging views which should be included in a POCUS study.
4. Describe the minimum requirements for training and quality assurance to sustain a pediatric cardiac POCUS program.

Follow @ASE360 and use the hashtag, #ASEchoJC for all tweets.