May 19, 2010
ASIPP Annual Meeting and Legislative Session Will Educate, Entertainand Preserve IPM |
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Register today to attend ASIPP's 12th Annual Meeting, June 26-30, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA.
The meeting features three separate sessions focused on the Future of Interventional Pain Management: Evidence-Based Medicine, Comparative Effectiveness, and Practice Management; as well as several prominent speakers including Dr. Roger Chou; Dr. Gabor Racz; Medical Economist CEO, J.D. Kleinke; Founder and President of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review; Deputy Assistant Administrator, and many others.
The meeting also offers a practice management series of presentations, which will cover the essential coding and compliance lectures. This series is ideal for physicians and is invaluable for their staff.
Get out your dancing shoes for Sunday's gala celebration themed An Evening in the Windy City. The evening will start with a cocktail mixer and move right into dinner, a brief business meeting, awards, and then entertainment from comedian and hypnotist, Flip Orley. After this, we will crank-up the fun and begin an evening of socializing, dancing and celebrating.
On Monday attend the legislative prep sessions that will arm you with the knowledge and know-how to take our key issues to your legislative leaders. Tuesday morning beginning with breakfast on the Hill followed by visits from several Senators and Representatives.
This year, the North American Neuromodulation Society and the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians are joining forces to bring to you the Legislative Session.
As an added incentive, those who participate in the Capitol Hill sessions will receive a $100 discount on the meeting fee and will be reimbursed for the two-night hotel stay (Monday and Tuesday) required for the Capitol Hill visits. An additional $50 discount will be given if you register before June 5. As always special rates are offered to fellows and medical students.
For Capitol Hill security purposes, if you plan to attend the Legislative sessions, please inform our office and provide your name and address. This pertains to those who are just coming to the congressional speeches as well as those who will have scheduled meetings with their state's government officials. Call or e-mail Cindy Rogers: 270-554-9412 ext 208 or crogers@asipp.org
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ASIPP to Issue Statement to AMA Against Brief |
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ASIPP sent a comment letterr to the American Medical Association in response to a draft brief released on interventional pain.
ASIPP has questions regarding language in the brief.
Comment letter |
Last Chance to Register for Webinar: Reporting PQRI for Pain Management in 2010 |
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The Webinar on Pay-for-Performance, the future of health care and the 2010 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) is tomorrow, May 20, at 2 pm CST.
The Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI), a voluntary quality reporting program, which includes an incentive payment for eligible professionals who report data on quality measures for services provided to Medicare beneficiaries. The pay-for-reporting program began in 2007. Learn more about the PQRI and how it may financially benefit your Pain Practice from Marvel Hammer, a national speaker on PQRI. If you haven't started, acquire the steps to begin reporting PQRI, including the specific information necessary to report the Back Pain Group Measure. Don't spend hours researching and reviewing countless web pages trying to learn how to report PQRI, receive the links to PQRI web sites and reporting tools that explain how to document and bill Pain Management quality measures
Webinar Highlights:
- Decide whether your Pain Management practice should participate in the program
- Identify the quality measures for 2010 that apply to Pain Management in private practice settings
- Recognize the difference between reporting individual measures versus group measures
- Eliminate confusion over the HCPCS and Category II codes you are required to report
- Learn the various methods to report PQRI, including the Registry reporting option for 2010
Date: Thursday, May 20, 2010. 2:00pm CT (90 minutes) Regular Price: $145 Credits: 1.5 CMEs or 1.5 CEUs Course Information and CME certificates will be made available immediately following the webinar session.
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Two Chances to Participate in Webinar on Practical Documentation, Billing and Coding. |
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Make plans today to attend Practical Documentation, Billing, and Coding for Interventional Techniques: A Sensible, Safe Approach from 6 pm to 730pm CST June 9 or 10 am to 1130 am CST June 10.
This webinar is intended to present interventional pain management specialists, billing and coding personnel, and other health care providers an in-depth review of interventional pain management documentation, billing, and coding.
Dr. Laxmaiah Manchikanti will address the following key points:
- Discuss documentation
- Review practice management topics
- Discuss coding and billing
- Examine compliance issues
Cost for the webinar is $165. The Institute for Medical Studies designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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Join Us in Chicago in August: 3 Courses, One Location |
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Make plans now to attend of one ASIPP's comprehensive courses to be held in the Windy City August 9-14. Meetings will be held at the Renaissance Chicago Hotel.
Comprehensive Pain Medicine and Interventional Pain Management 2010 Board Review Course August 9-13, 2010 - Chicago, IL Register | Brochure
Comprehensive Review in: Controlled Substance Management August 9-10, 2010 - Chicago, IL Coding, Compliance, and Practice Management August 12-13, 2010 - Chicago, IL Register | Brochure
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Abstract Deadline Friday |
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The Online Abstract Submission (see step-by-step procedures below) for the 12th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) is now open. The meeting will be held June 26- June 30, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, VA.
Abstract submission deadline is Friday, May 21. Those selected will be notified and will receive free registration to the annual meeting.
Selected abstracts will be presented along with posters at the annual meeting on Saturday June 26 or Sunday June 27.
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FDA: Bad Ad Program to Help Health Care Providers Detect, Report Misleading Drug Ads |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today launched a program designed to educate health care providers about their role in ensuring that prescription drug advertising and promotion is truthful, and not misleading
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The Bad Ad Program is an FDA-sponsored educational outreach effort administered by the agencys Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising, and Communications (DDMAC), in the FDAs Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
The Bad Ad Program will help health care providers recognize misleading prescription drug promotion and provide them with an easy way to report this activity to the agency, said Thomas Abrams, director of DDMAC.
FDA |
Lexi-Comp Awarded $10M Contract as Drug Information Provider for Military |
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HUDSON, OH - Lexi-Comp has been awarded a $10 million contract by the TRICARE Management Activity to provide the Military Health System with an Electronic Clinical Reference solution.
Under the contract, all MHS active duty, reserve and guard healthcare personnel across all military treatment facilities, including 59 hospitals and 364 health clinics, will have access to Lexi-Comp's 23 medical and nine dental databases.
The information is referenced when making decisions on prescribing, administering and monitoring the effects of medications to help ensure patient safety and avoid drug interactions.
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Rising Cost of Delayed SGR Reform Spurs Call for Permanent Solution |
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Washington -- As Congress once again closed to within weeks of the next Medicare physician payment cut, organized medicine made another pitch for a long-term solution, this time citing new budget projections showing that such a move is becoming more expensive as time goes on.
Whatever lawmakers decide to do -- whether it's the multiyear package being crafted at this article's deadline or another month-long patch -- will come against the backdrop of an April 30 cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office.
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Doctor Pooling Plan Sparks Fear |
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A hospital trade association is developing a plan for hospitals around southern California to form a foundation that would supply them with doctors.
Initially only about 20 of the association's 160 member hospitals are expected to participate if the foundation launches, but the idea is already sparking concerns that it might drive up medical costs.
Small and medium-sized hospitals are most likely to take part, the hospital association said. The goal would be to have at least 60 doctors at the start, but the foundation could grow to include several hundred physicians
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Recorded ASIPP Webinars Available |
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If you missed a previous ASIPP Webinar, you can still view it online or order the CD at http://asipp.peachnewmedia.com/store/provider/provider09.php?. If you had previously registered for the webinar and missed it there will be no additional charge and you can view it at your convenience. The pdf document of the powerpoint presentation is also available. If you need help to access the recorded version you can click HERE to contact our customer support team or call us at 1-866-702-3278.
If you did not register previously, you may order the recorded webinar and view it online at your convenience or order the CD. The pdf document of the presentation will be available, as will the CME and/or CEU credit certification.
Each new webinar will be archived for future reference or purchase. Current webinar topics available are:
- Staying Ahead Of Government Enforcement Efforts. Speaker: Vicki Mykowiak, JD
- Evidence-Based Interventional Techniques: An Algorithmic Approach To Keeping It Simple, Safe, and Successful. Speaker: Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, ASIPP CEO and Chairman of the Board
- Coding: Be Prepared for 2010. Speaker: Joanne Mehmert CPC, CCC-PM, ACS-PM
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Informed Consent: Hospitals Explore Personalizing Risks |
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Informed consent has long been a bedrock principle of medical ethics, but the form intended to document a patient's understanding of a proposed intervention is too often written at a college reading level and is ambiguous about risks.
Some doctors are out to change that, bringing a personalized medical approach to informed consent
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Nine medical centers around the country -- including the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit -- are testing an informed-consent process for patients undergoing nonemergent cardiac catheterization and potential angioplasty. The Web-based program draws on a national cardiovascular database to predict individualized risks of death, bleeding or restenosis.
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Healthcare Prices Continued to Rise in April |
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WASHINGTON - Overall healthcare prices increased 0.2 percent in April and were 3.1 percent higher than a year ago, according to data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
According to the BLS' Producer Price Indices, which measure average changes in selling prices received by domestic producers for their output, physician office prices rose 0.4 percent from March to April, and were 2.4 percent higher than in April 2009.
Healthcare Finance News |
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