In this first presentation of "Your QIO Answers Your Questions," Howard Pitluk, MD, MPH, FACS, and Mark Michelman, MD, MBA, discuss the Surgical Care Improvement Program VTE Quality Meaures and answer questions from the audience. This Webinar, conducted on November 5, 2009, was conducted for physicians and hospital staff in Arizona, California, and Florida by Health Services Advisory Group, Inc. (the Medicare Quality improvement Organization for Arizona), Health Services Advisory Group of California, Inc. (the Medicare Quality Improvment Organization for California), and FMQAI, Inc. (the Medicare Quality improvement Organization for Florida). The podcast is available at http://www.hsag.com/App_Resources/Documents/Physicians_and-the_SCIP-VTE_Measures.mp3