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Click here for photos of the May 2009 Memphis Meeting
Review Course and Cadaver Workshop in Vertebroplasty, Kyphoplasty, and Sacroplasty & the Comprehensive Review Course in Controlled Substance Management and Competency Exam.
ASIPP Photo Gallery of Past Meetings Available Here.

ASIPP Launches 'Member' Site
Visit the ASIPP MemberSite, the new 'member' section of asipp.org. For a temporary period of time you are able to access the section without a name and password by clicking here.
Once you are in the MemberSite, just click on the Member Blog button and you will have automatic access to it as well.
We encourage you to visit the site, add topics to the Blog, or make suggestions to the MemberSite. Access to these areas will eventually require a unique name and password for each member in good standing. Also, look for annoucements for another new member benifit: "DrFinder" will be available soon. This feature will allow you to search for ASIPP physicians by name, location, etc. Get started today.

ASIPP e-News is Posted Weekly - Click Here For Past Articles

Need To Know Your Elected Officials?
Stay on top of the issues affecting interventional pain management, know your elected and appointed officials and contact the media in your area. You can make a difference by getting involved! Find out who represents you on Capitol Hill, go to Capwiz: http://www.asipp.org/Alert.htm
Change Your Specialty Designation
Use the CMS Form to Change your Specialty Designation to 09 - Interventional Pain Management
We are faced with the need to increase our 09 Interventional Pain Management specialty designation. Currently CMS claims there are too few IPM physicians, which negatively affects our reimbursement. Interventional Pain Physicians can now change their specialty code designation to 09 utilizing the CMS form CMS855I - see page 8, section D.
IPM Becomes 34th Specialty On CACs
In March 2005, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid mandated that Interventional Pain Management become the 34th medical specialty represented on state Carrier Advisory Committees, which make local decisions about Medicare coverage. Information on CACs.
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2009 ASIPP IPM Guidelines Now Open for Comments
The final draft of the 2009 Comprehensive Evidence-Based Guidelines for Interventional Techniques in the Management of Chronic Spinal Pain is now available open for comments.
The draft guidelines can be accessed on the ASIPP Web site at: http://www.asipp.org/documents/2009guidelines.pdf
This comment period is open only to commentaries and opinions; please do not send proofs or edits. All comments will be considered prior to publication. Select submissions may be printed with the Guidelines in the July/August issue of Pain Physician journal. Any comments received after the deadline will be considered for post publication.
Comments are open to ASIPP members as well as other societies and organizations. Submissions should follow Pain Physician author guidelines for letters to the editor:
The letter must be objective, constructive, and educational, and should clearly state its purpose. Letters to the editor should not exceed 1,000 words and may include references, tables, and figures.
Send coments to editor@painphysicianjournal.com

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The American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians is Committed to Promoting Awareness and Understanding of Interventional Pain Management Through a Multitude of Media Events and Public Relations Efforts
The Following is a Sample of Communications:
• Dr. Kloth was featured on Health Radio’s Spine Universe. Click here to listen.
• Dr. Kloth interviews with Health Team Channel 8 on drug monitoring programs. Click here for an online video of the interview and a printed article of the same interview.
• Dr. Laxmaiah Manchikanti’s interview with Dailyfinance.com
• Dr. Kloth’s two videos on the Doctors Channel regarding NASPER
• Dr. Manchikanti’s interview with American Medical News
• Dr. David Kloth, a full-time practicing interventional pain physician and spokesperson for the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, interviews with Dr. DeSilva on Health Radio. Download the interview and listen to the discussion about the number of electronic devices in use continuing to climb and the increase of a new ailment called Cubital Tunnel Syndrome or “Cell Phone” Elbow.
• Dr. David Kloth, ASIPP Board Director at Large, was on SIRIUS Doctor radio Monday, June 8th, 8:30am to 9am EST.
• Dr. David Kloth also will be on a talk radio show called “Ask Doctor DeSilva” which will air live Monday, June 8th at 12:45pm EST. The interview will stream LIVE online at www.HealthRadio.net and will be available shortly after via Podcast.
• Listen to Dr. Manchikanti’s radio interview with Dr. Mary Zennett of Health Matters about NASPER. Dr. Mary Zennett thought the interview was a great success and wants to use it for a health online newsletter which she is getting ready to launch.
• View a Tabloid Insert in the Chicago Tribune on Back Pain and IPM.

Now Available
"Order Interventional Techniques
In Chronic Non-Spinal Pain Today!"
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“Interventional Techniques in Chronic Non-Spinal Pain,” is the premier manual ideal for guiding the interventionalist with detailed descriptions of practical techniques in interventional pain management. A CD version is included. Over 400 pages, 300 illustrations, and 30 contributing authors.
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Copies Still Available
“Interventional Techniques in Chronic Spinal Pain”
With detailed descriptions of practical techniques in interventional pain management this is a must have publication for all interventional pain physicians. Click here to order
All book proceeds go to the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians.
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ASIPP GUIDELINES
Click on the headline for our articles on evidence-based practice guidelines for interventional techniques in the management of chronic pain. Or go to National Guidelines Clearinghouse for ASIPP's 2007 Interventional Techniques: Evidence-based Practice Guidelines in the Management of Chronic Spinal Pain.
Guidelines By Year: 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2003 | 2001 | 2000

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