Vicky Vargas

[Vicky Vargas @vickyvar55]

In honor of Endometriosis Awareness Month, the AAGL endometriosis SIG is hosting a webinar. All are welcome, you don’t need to be a member of AAGL.

Date: 3/24/25
Time: 8 pm EST
Zoom Registration Link: https://t.co/BwrP3UcbAD

[Vicky Vargas @vickyvar55]

@Behind7The7Mask @jfitzgeraldMD Medicare relative value units for gender-specific procedures: is Adam still worth more than Eve? Gynecol Oncol. 1997 Aug;66(2):313-9. doi:

Chaikof M er al. Surgical sexism in Canada: structural bias in reimbursement of surgical care for women. Can J Surg. 2023 Jul 4;66(4):E341

[Vicky Vargas @vickyvar55]

@Behind7The7Mask @jfitzgeraldMD Benoit MF et al. Comparison of 2015 Medicare relative value units for gender-specific procedures: Gynecologic and gynecologic-oncologic versus urologic CPT coding. Has time healed gender-worth? Gynecol Oncol. 2017 Feb;144(2):336-342.

Goff BA et al. Comparison of 1997

[Vicky Vargas @vickyvar55]

@Behind7The7Mask @jfitzgeraldMD gynecologic surgery to a more complex orthopedic surgery. Let’s try looking at this more objectively. The point has been made before so I will not reinvent the wheel, but ask that you educate yourself before speaking on a subject. Take a look here.

[Vicky Vargas @vickyvar55]

@Behind7The7Mask @jfitzgeraldMD That is not at all an equivalent comparison and appears to be an attempt to minimize the point. More complex surgery should be reimbursed more highly. What it seems is that you are suggesting gynecologic surgery is less complex by selecting a comparison of a low complexity

[Vicky Vargas @vickyvar55]

@2picklesinabun1 @nancynursez637 She didn’t say trans is a gender, she said transgender people can have endometriosis. It’s important for physicians to understand this so they consider endometriosis a diagnosis in all patients they see.

[Vicky Vargas @vickyvar55]

@MathewLeonardi @WendalineVB @GynaecologyUS @beranMD @MIGSminded @Dr_H_Alsalem @VimeeBindra @lucianachamiec1 @jaytigdi @DrAllaire @yvettegroszmann @LauriHochberg What a great example! I would say E based on what I’ve learned from you!

[Vicky Vargas @vickyvar55]

@boardobgyn @TheNRMP You forgot MIGS!

[Vicky Vargas @vickyvar55]

@sjs673 @nytimes Everyone should vote. Men have just responsibility as women here. We need to acknowledge that this policy regression impacts all of society, regardless of gender.

[Vicky Vargas @vickyvar55]

@AAGLJMIG Thank you all for participating in the December #JMIGjc. I commend @drgabymoawad and all of my colleagues moving MIGS forward with interesting and relevant research!

[Vicky Vargas @vickyvar55]

@AAGLJMIG Thank you all for joining the #JMIGjc discussion on same day discharge! Seems like FMIGS graduates are discharging pts the same day and the opinion poll on the most important factors for success are patient education, with ERAS, and PACU training closely following!

[Vicky Vargas @vickyvar55]

@AAGLJMIG Later surg end time (increments of 60 min, OR 1.2) and OR time (increments 30 min, OR 1.6) inc the odds of admission in @drgabymoawad's paper. How do you manage your schedule to inc your SDD rates? How do you balance teaching and efficiency!? #JMIGjc

[Vicky Vargas @vickyvar55]

@salazarMIGS @AAGLJMIG @drgabymoawad The factors that inc odds of admission were older age, lower pre-op Hct, prior laparotomy (non-c/s), higher uterine weight, longer OR time, later end time, and complications intraop. We didn't measure PACU phase variables, maybe that's the next step!

[Vicky Vargas @vickyvar55]

Time for journal club @AAGLJMIG #JMIGjc! The article, by my partner in MIGS at GW, @drgabymoawad, presents our data on same day discharge after lsc and RA hysterectomy.

[Vicky Vargas @vickyvar55]

@MigsRunner @AAGLJMIG Look forward to reading your paper! Do you have data on urinary retention rates after discharge in your cohort? Do you make voiding a criteria for your patients before same day discharge? #JMIGjc

[Vicky Vargas @vickyvar55]

We also find that pt education is the key! Who makes patients void prior to discharge? PACU nurses at our institution often note how this delays the ability to send patients home... I've stopped that requirement. You? #JMIGjc

[Vicky Vargas @vickyvar55]

@Mikhail_MIGS @MigsRunner @drcaraking @JamesCaseyMD @jmourad1 @salazarMIGS @NMoawad_MIGS @WassonMegan Seems like same day discharge is becoming the norm. What helped to establish a same day discharge culture at your institution? #JMIGjc

[Vicky Vargas @vickyvar55]

@JamesCaseyMD It seems to becoming the norm rather than the exception! What factors influence your patients to choose to stay over night?

[Vicky Vargas @vickyvar55]

@Mikhail_MIGS @MigsRunner @drcaraking @JamesCaseyMD @jmourad1 @salazarMIGS @NMoawad_MIGS @WassonMegan Seems like same day discharge is becoming the norm. What helped to establish a same day discharge culture at your institution? #JMIGjc