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| 2010 ALERTS |
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| July 21, 2010 | Justice Dept. charges 94 with Healthcare fraud; Senate presses CMS to prevent 2.9 percent cut to hospitals; Opinion: Medicare needs systematic remedies; read more… |
| July 14, 2010 | AMA losing clout on Hill; Dr. Frank Falco named to CPT Advisory Committee; Study finds physician- patient e-mail improves quality; read more… |
| July 7, 2010 | NCCI 3rd quarter updates: Washington court dumps notice for malpractice lawsuits; Obama bypassing senate for new Medicare Chief; read more… |
| June 30, 2010 | Congress raises Medicare doctor pay by 2.2% through November; Experts urge reform of global drug policy; Texas physician charged with healthcare fraud; read more… |
| June 23, 2010 | Senate passes six-month SGR fix; Indiana anesthesiologist charged with healthcare fraud and unlawful drug distribution; physicians turn to online communications; read more… |
| June 16, 2010 | CMS extends hold on physician claims through thursday; GAO gives Medicare five ways to prevent fraud, waste; FDA releases risk summaries for newer drugs; read more… |
| June 9, 2010 | Study: Infection control at surgery centers; Registry data point to diclofenac as deadliest NSAID; the doctor’s in-box; |
| June 2, 2010 | Physician anger rises over Congress’ failure to meet “doc fix” deadline; Patient data breaches are soaring; FDA warns against contaminated IV antibiotics; read more… |
| May 26, 2010 | Experts: ‘Doc Fix’ a Budget Band-Aid; FDA Approves Intranasal NSAID; read more… |
| May 19, 2010 | FDA: Bad Ad Program to Help Health Care Providers Detect, Report Misleading Drug Ads; Lexi-Comp Awarded $10M contract as Drug Information Provider for Military; read more… |
| May 12, 2010 | New Rules Plan More Limits on Pain Clinics; Medicare Pay: SGR Fatigue; read more... |
| May 5, 2010 | Is Transparency a Price of Reform?; Nation Prescription Drug Database Slowly Becoming Reality; Film Addresses Phantom Limb Pain; read more… |
| April 28, 2010 | Medicare Pay Cut Stopped Again; Patient Safety, Quality Experts Hope Reform Delivers Improvements; HIPAA Regulations Will Come Next Month; read more… |
| April 21, 2010 | More doctors are prescribing medicines online; Safety on the syllabus: Patient safety becoming part of medical education; JAMA urges journals to toughen data review: |
| April 14, 2010 | Oklahoma Passes Interventional Pain Management and Treatment Act; Doctor Shortage? 28 States May Expand Nurses’ Role; CMS Issues Sanctions Against Aetna; more… |
| April 7, 2010 | CMS Tells Contractors to Delay Doc Payments for 10 Days; CCI Second Quarter Updates Released; FDA Approves New Version of OxyContin Intended to Thwart Abuse; more… |
| March 31, 2010 | DEA Proposed Regs for E-prescribing Scheduled Drugs; Common Mechanisms of Drug Abuse and Obesity, more… |
| March 24, 2010 | House Passes Bill to Delay Physician pay Cut; With Senate ‘Fixes’ Bill, GOP Sees Last Chance to change Health Care Reform; more... |
| March 17, 2010 | Health Care Fiasco: Obama, Pelosi, and Reid Care; Physicians Step-up Protests Against Medicare Cuts; Stricter Training Urged for Imaging, Radiation; more… |
| March 10, 2010 | Senate inches closer to delay of physician pay cut; Commentary: Health care’s obstacle – No will to cut; Slowly, states are lessening limits on Marijuana; more… |
| March 3, 2010 | Senate Delays Doc Pay Cut for 30 Days; Obama Calls for ‘Up or Down” Vote on Heath care; More… |
| February 24, 2010 | |
| February 17, 2010 | L.A. County Slashes Doctors’ Reimbursement Rate; No Longer Waiting for Feds, States Jumpstart Health Reform; more… |
| February 10, 2010 | Documentation for Dummies and Cadaver Course offered in April; FDA To Require Medical Imaging Firms To Redesign Equipment; more... |
| February 3, 2010 | Medicare 'doc fix' may cost $200B ; Abstract and Poster Session Registration Form Now Avaiable; more... |
| January 27, 2010 | Health Reform Would Spend $5B to Create High-Risk Pools for Uninsurable; Information regarding Calendar Year 2010; more... |
| January 20, 2010 | ASIPP Haiti Relief Fund; Brown's Senate Win Could Upset Health Care Reform; read more... |
| January 13, 2010 | CMS Agrees Not to Eliminate Fluoroscopy Coverage for Epidurals; Abstract and Poster Session Deadline Set; Labor Campaigns Against Tax on Health Plans; read more… |
| January 6, 2010 | Results from 2008 National Survey on Drug and Health; NCCI Update; Minnesota Implements NASPER; read more… |
| 2009 ALERTS | |
| December 30, 2009 | Medical Billing Code Monopoly Explains AMA’s Support for Health Plan, Critics Say; GAO; Side-by-Side comparison of House and Senate Health Bills; read more… |
| December 23, 2009 | 2010 CPT Coding Update; Health Care Bill: The Real Money Question; Doctor Pay Cut Postponed until March 1; read more… |
| December 16, 2009 | ASIPP Webinar Survey; The battle over health care; Leasing market for medical offices hits downtown; read more… |
| December 9, 2009 | Noridian removes non-coverage policy of Lumbar Facets; Abstract session deadline; NCCI Adjusts ruling; read more… |
| December 2, 2009 | Changes to 2009 CPT for IPM Physicians; Two Ways the Bill Will Pay for Healthcare Reform; County Takes Next Step in Bid to Curb Pain Clinics; read more…. |
| Nobember 25, 2009 | Noridian Facet Joint Issues and Misinformation; PR Update; House Passes Major Medicare Payment Reform – Is It Good for Us?; read more… |
| November 18, 2009 | Commentary: Congressional Spenders Ignore Deeping Government Waste; HHS Emplys New Tougher Standards in Calculation of Improper Medicare Payment Rates for 2009; ASIPP Adds Resident/Fellow Board Members; read more… |
| November 11, 2009 | Pay-for-Performance Participation Can Be Pricey; Doctors Spending More time Now with Patients; CMS Publishes Final 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Rule; read more… |
| November 4, 2009 | ABIPP to offer Part II Examination; House Democrats Clear the Way for Healthcare Vote; FTC to Delay Enforcement of Red Flags Rule until June; read more… |
| October 28, 2009 | Tricare Denying Coverage of Facet Nerve Blocks and RFD; ASIPP Guidelines Accepted to NGC; Seniors Squeezed as Doctors Shun Medicare; read more… |
| October 21, 2009 | Democrats push to reverse Medicare payment cuts to doctors; Small providers may not have to deal with red flags rule; Physician groups back Medicare payment reform bill: read more… |
| October 14, 2009 | Healthcare reform bill clears final senate panel; Medicaid drug fraud targeted by government watchdog group; how the modern patient drives up health costs; read more… |
| October 7, 2009 | Fourth Quarter CCI Updates Released; Book Released by ASIPP Members; Facet Joint Interventional Techniques Survey; read more… |
| September 30, 2009 | Senators reject pair of public option proposals; Some state push to ban mandate on insurance; Challenges to medical liability caps go before Georgia, Maryland high courts; read more… |
| Setember 23, 2009 | RAC Audits to Begin in Regions C & D; Insurers Expect to Pay Out 10% More for Medical Care; read more… |
| September 16, 2009 | Healthcare Proposal Mandates Coverage, Drops Public Option; ASIPP Members Can Weigh in on IPM Topics for Radio Listeners; States Targeting Medicaid Physician Pay; read more… |
| September 9, 2009 | ASIPP Member Stephen Lester, Family Killed in Plane Crash; ABIPP Part II to be offered April 25, 2010; read more... |
| September 2 , 2009 | Documentation for Dummies; Healthcare Bill - Continue to Write Congress and White House; read more… |
| August 26, 2009 | Medicare pay-for-service by non-physicians comes under scrutiny; Swine Flu Could Infect Half of U.S.; read more… |
| August 19, 2009 | Stop Extinction of Facet Joint Interventions in Noridian States; Lack of Medicare Appointee Puzzles Congress; Fight Looms over Medicare Advantage; read more… |
| August 12, 2009 | Florida Medicaid clients dropped in computer failure; RAC audits begin in South Carolina; read more… |
| August 5, 2009 | Landmark Massachusetts Health Reform Showing Cracks in Access and Coverage; Florida Medicaid Clients Dropped in Computer Failure; Read more… |
| July 29, 2009 | Senators Close to Health Accord; Florida Appeals Court Halts some California Medicaid Pay Cuts; Read more… |
| July 22, 2009 | Budget Blow for Health Plan; AMA Ranks Payers’ Claims Processes; Patient Portion of Fees Often a Mystery; Read more… |
| July 15, 2009 | Regina Benjamin Picked as Surgeon General; CMS Announces 2010 Proposed Fee Schedules read more… |
| July 8, 2009 | Medicare Program Payment Policy Updates; ASC, HOPD Payment Rates; Third Quarter CCI Updates; read more… |
| July 1, 2009 | Lack of Training for Health Care Professionals Increase Drug Addiction; Medicare Fraud Strike Force Makes 53 Arrests; read more… |
| June 24, 2009 | Gov. Signs Florida Legislation Aimed to Halt Abuses of Pain Pills; Obama proposes Law Requiring Congress to Find Health Spending Offsets; read more… |
| June 17, 2009 | ASIPP Officially Gains Seat in AMA House of Delegates; Obama Pitches Health Care Reform to MDs; read more… |
| June 10, 2009 | RACs self assessment and aggressive appeals are key; Democrats nearing consensus on health plan; read more… |
| June 3, 2009 | Disaster averted for quarterly NCCI edits; NASPER progress; RAC program to be in place by Jan. 1; read more… |
| May 27, 2009 | CCI Second quarter updates; Antitrust law a hurdle to healthcare overhaul; read more… |
| May 20, 2009 | New Democrat Coalition proposes independent panel to oversee comparative effectiveness research; SAMHSA seeks public comment on Issues related to the implementation of the NASPER; read more… |
| May 13, 2009 | Physicians get delay in FTC enforcement of identity theft rules; Medicine scores legal victories in scope of practice; read more… |
| May 6, 2009 | RACs free to make call on medical necessity rules; EMR adoption higher in states with fewer privacy rules; Medicare Advantage comes under more scrutiny; read more… |
| April 29, 2009 | Sebulius Confirmed by Senate; FL Senate Approves Prescription Drug Tracking System; Helping Search Engines Find You More Quickly; read more… |
| April 22, 2009 | Senate Finance Committee Approves Sebelius Nomination; Doctors face risk of harsh penalties form new Medicare enrollment rules; read more… |
| April 15, 2009 | Louisiana Supreme Court upholds injunction in CRNA scope of practice; HHS nominee Sebelius awaits senate vote; read more… |
| April 14, 2009 | SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS INJUNCTION IN CRNA SCOPE OF PRACTICE |
| April 8, 2009 | Florida clinics multiply, drug overdoes climb; Pain doctor made to prove care was proper; read more… |
| April 1, 2009 | A world of hurt: Exams of injured workers fuel mutual mistrust; Drug related deaths: Legal drugs are problem too; read more… |
| March 25, 2009 | Medical journal deries public airing of conflicts; Doctors increasingly close doors to drug reps, while pharma cuts ranks; read more… |
| March 18, 2009 | Team Effort in the House to Overhaul Health Care; No job, no bill: Physicians tell how they help longtime patients struggling during recession; read more… |
| March 12, 2009 | Doctor admits pain studies were frauds; Scope of practice expansions fuel legal battles; Doctors fight back against denial by algorithm; read more… |
| March 4, 2009 | Kansas Governor Accepts Offer as Health Secretary; CMS Issues Change Request; read more… |
| February 24, 2009 |
Obama calls for healthcare reform; Humana questions adequacy of 2010 preliminary rates; State, feds disagree on use of opioid; read more… |
| February 18, 2009 | Analysis: Stimulus Law Spends on Healthcare Today to Save for Tomorrow; Spine Pain Treatment Attracts Scrutiny of OIG; read more… |
| February 11, 2009 | HHS candidate draws fire; SCHIP expanded – Specialty hospitals survive; Insurers share doctors’ financial pain; read more… |
| February 4, 2009 | Daschle withdraws as HHS nominee; Call for Abstracts; Medicare payment fix weighed; read more… |
| January 21, 2009 | UnitedHealth paying $350 million to settle suit on out-of-network medical services; Medicare pay must be fixed, says Daschle; read more… |
| January 14, 2009 | First quarter CCI Updates; Medicare funding cuts unresolved by new administration; read more... |
| January 7, 2009 | Deadline for AMA Physician Practice Survey extended; Economy: Medicare rules hit surgery centers; read more… |
| POSTED | 2008 ALERTS |
| December 31, 2008 | LA Court ruling on CRNA scope of practice; Pain Physician editor elected to European Academy of Sciences and Art; read more… |
| December 23, 2008 | Blue Cross launches doctor-rating survey; Pain-killers can make migraines worse; Rep. Stark: no health reform vote in early ’09; read more… |
| December 17, 2008 | Manuscript on Deaths from Opioid Analgesics now available on PubMed; New Hampshire ban on sale of prescribing date upheld; read more… |
| December 10, 2008 | Leaks to plug in your billing department to ensure total reimbursement; HHS set rules for confidential medical error reporting; more… |
| December 3, 2008 | Dec. 31 deadline for AMA Physician Practice Survey; Senate gets early start on Senate Healthcare Reform plan; more... |
| November 26, 2008 | Few Doctors Sign Off on Online Prescribing; Federal Court Upholds Drug Privacy Law; read more... |
| November 19, 2008 | Rubenstein Public Relations Makes Press Release; CMS Issues Improper Payment Rates for Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP; read more... |
| November 12, 2008 | The Good and the Bad of Medicare's 2009 ASC Rates; You aked for it, we delivered - ASIPP Member Blog now available; read more... |
| November 5, 2008 | ASIPP meets requirements for AMA House of Delegates Seat; Abstract submittal period now open; read more… |
| October 29, 2008 | |
| October 22, 2008 | OIG releases Facet Joint Medicare Payments report; study: smoking, gender effect pain treatment; read more… |
| October 15, 2008 | Trend of Medicaid pay increases expected to end; Bean counters shouldn’t override doctors; read more… |
| October 8, 2008 | ASIPP gains twenty-eight signatures on congressional ASC letter to CMS; Medicaid long-term care- A ticking bomb; read more… |
| October 1, 2008 | Medicaid long-term care; A ticking time bomb; Research: Cell protein suppresses pain better than morphine; read more… |
| September 24, 2008 | Kentucky Prescription Monitoring Program receives $400,000 federal grant; Office of the Instructor; Office of the Inspector General (OIG) posts report, “Medicare Payments for Facet Joint Injection Services”; read more… |
| September 17, 2008 | North Dakota telepharmacy project expands across country: Hollywood and health: Health content in popular TV; read more... |
| September 10, 2008 | Oct. 1 deadline looms for three Medicaid prescription security features; Malpractice insurance; How to lower your premiums; Read more... |
| September 3, 2008 | CMS calls for transition to ICD-10 codes in 3 years; Texas liability reforms spur plunge in premiums and lawsuits; Read more... |
| August 27, 2008 | FDA considers training to despense narcotics; Virtual medicine: Compaines use webcams for real-time patient encounters. Read more... |
| August 20, 2008 | Trying to script a solution; treatment for pain divides physicians. Read more... |
| August 13, 2008 | CSIPP president testifies before DWC on treatment guidelines. read more... |
| July 30, 2008 | Send comment letters to CMS; Save the date for the upcoming SCS Course. more... |
| July 23, 2008 | BCBS denies SI injections coverage; ASIPP begins PR campaign. read more... |
| July 16, 2008 | Congress overrides veto on Medicare bill; Save the date for the Dec. Spinal Cord Stimulation and Intrathecal Implantable course. Read more... |
| July 9, 2008 | Senate Votes Reversal of Cuts in Medicare Doctor Fees ...breaking update |
| July 9, 2008 | Senate returns to debate Medicare Advantage cuts; CCI third Quater updates...read more |
| June 27, 2008 | Doctors face payment cuts for patients on Medicare; Help prevent cuts - write and call Congress today; Help to Assure a Voice for IPM - Join AMA... read more |
| June 18, 2008 | Patients rarely use online ratings to pick physicians; AMA issues first report card on health insurers; FDA Approves Cymbalta(R) For The Management Of Fibromyalgia... read more |
| June 11, 2008 | Senate Majority Leader Files To Invoke Cloture on Medicare Bill That Would Stall Physician Fee Cut; Medical testing board to introduce doctor of nursing certification; Revitalizing dead space: Finding an innovative place for your practice... read more |
| June 4, 2008 | 10 Keys to Turning Around Financially Troubled ASCs; Lilly submits Cymbalta(R) supplemental new drug application for chronic pain to U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Congress may prod doctors toward electronic prescriptions... read more |
| May 28, 2008 | ASIPP 10th Annual Meeting Discounted Registration Extended to May 31; Google Health now available; King pays Acura $3M for product license... read more |
| May 21, 2008 | FDA debates new version of OxyContin; ASIPP to hold Board Review and Competency Review Course; Doctor cited for prescribing too many painkillers... read more |
| May 14, 2008 | Contact Congress on pending Medicare reimbursement legislation; Did you recieve a Physician Practice Information Survey?; Doctor Indicted on Federal Drug Trafficking Charges for Writing Oxycontin Prescriptions for Cash... read more |
| May 7, 2008 | Physician Practice Information Survey: Did you recieve a survey?; NPI deadline: Insurers won't pay claims with old IDs after May 23; One in four Americans have daily pain; Judge rejects damages limit for malpractice... read more |
| April 30, 2008 | Let Congress Hear From You Today!; Update on the LSBN; Ambiguously ill pose challenge for doctors; 'Boot camp' helps chronic pain sufferers cope... read more |
| April 23, 2008 | Contact Your Officials This Week: Congress Considers Medicare Fix; Texas Physicians Punished for Prescribing Violations; Nevada May Require ASC Accreditation... read more |
| April 16, 2008 | Congress is Considering Medicare Fix: Contact Your Officals Today!; Crimeproof Your Practice: How to Improve Office Safety; Advanced-practice Nurses Seek Wider Scope in 24 States... read more |
| April 9, 2008 | Frontline Failure: PCPs Often Unarmed Against Pain; Parish Council Expected to Renew Pain Clinic Moratorium; Medical Malpractice Legislation Passes Tennessee House... read more |
| April 2, 2008 | Congress is Considering Medicare Fix: Contact Your Officals Today!; CMS Instructs Florida RAC to Cease and Desist; National Standards to Rank Physicians Planned... read more |
| March 26, 2008 | 2007 Pain Practice Benchmarks Survey Results Released; Physicians Face April 1 Deadlien for Tamper-proof Rx Pads; Duragesic Patch: Fentanyl is a Cousin to Heroin... read more |
| March 19, 2008 | Reimbursement Cuts are Looming: Act Today to Prevent Cuts in July; In Memoriam: Samuel J. Hassenbusch, III, MD, FIPP; N.H. Top Five in Methadone Deaths; OIG Work Plan for 2008 to Examine ASC and Hospital, Pain Management and IDTF Issues... read more |
| March 12, 2008 | ASIPP, AAPM, ISIS with AMA to Conduct Physician Practice Survey; Jinx of the J-1 visa: IMGs finding other paths to residency; View Photos from March Cadaver Course; New Hampshire Society of Interventional Pain Physicians Annual Meeting on March 26, 2008... read more |
| March 5, 2008 | Your Immediate Action is Needed on Legislative Issues; Audits Sting Hospitals, Physicians; Chronic pain research and treatment in Quebec gets $4.35-million boost... read more |
| February 27, 2008 | Your Action is Needed to Prevent Cuts; Cops and Doctors; Network Lets Doctors Share Patient Info... read more |
| February 20, 2008 | Medicare RACs may be coming to an end; ASC Reimbursement Errors Cause Increased Cuts; FDA Alert: Icy Hot Heat Therapy Products Recalled... read more |
| February 13, 2008 | Deja Vu - Saga of Fluoroscopy Codes Starts Again; Medicare Recovery Audit Contractors - They are coming your way sooner than you think; N.Y. Attorney General Probes Alleged Insurer, IT Firm Scheme... read more |
| February 6, 2008 | ANS Becomes Diamond Sponsor; A doctor's dilemma: prescribing pain pills is getting trickier; Financial ties are cited as issue in spine study... read more |
| January 30, 2008 | Pain Societies Express Concern with Recently Published ACOEM Guidelines; CMS Physician Fee Shedule Overview; Court allows suit against doctor over drug effects... read more |
| January 23, 2008 | DEA Raids Health Clinic Suspected in Illegal Prescriptions; Duluth-based Health System Bans Pharmaceutical Logos; March 1 Medicare Requires Use New ID Number... read more |
| January 16, 2008 | A Dark Addiction: Miners Caught in Western Va.'s Spiraling Rates of Painkiller Abuse; Rep. Whitfield Responds to "Dark Addiction": Sends Letter to Editor; Massachusetts Supreme Court Rules Duty, Duty Everywhere... read more |
| January 11, 2008 | ASIPP Breaking News: LA State Judge Rules Practice of IPM Not Within CRNAs Scope of Practice read more |
| January 9, 2008 | Pay Membership Dues Online; New Jersey court sends blow to doctor-owned surgery centers; Reduced Fee Ends Jan. 18 for Specialty Course in Vertebroplasty, Kyphoplasty & Sacroplasty... read more |
| January 2, 2008 | The Year Ahead with ASIPP; NASPER Update; Quicker Pain Treatment Keeps Soldiers Going; Pain Physician journal adds topical issues... read more |
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