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| POSTED | 2008 ALERTS |
| 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; MAMA 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 |
| POSTED | 2007 ALERTS |
| December 26, 2007 | Medicare 10.1% Cut Temporarily Averted; Stricter requirements sought for relicensure; Second Safety Warning on Fentanyl Skin Patch; Doctor facing jail time for patients' accidental overdoses... read more |
| December 19, 2007 | Medicare 10.1% Cut likely averted: Extenders Package to go before House and Senate today; Jan. 28, 2007 deadline on ASC Comment letters; Pa. Report: ASCs Save Medicare $464 Million Annually... read more |
| December 12, 2007 | Abstract submission deadline extended to Jan. 31; Important Survey for CMS/RUC - Dec. 21 deadline; Court: Non-radiologists can't refer for in-office imaging... read more |
| December 5, 2007 | Only a Few weeks Remain to Submit Your Abstract for ASIPP 10th Annual Meeting Now Open; Congress is Back - This is the Final Hour to Act; AMA Defines Interventional Pain Management as Practice of Medicine... read more |
| November 28, 2007 | Time is Running Out to Act: Continue to Contact; CBS News: Behind The Scenes Of Rx Drug Dealing; DEA announces Multiple Schudule II Issuance Final Rule... read more |
| November 21, 2007 | Continue to Contact Congress: 10.1% Cuts Assured Unless Congress Acts; Bigger practice, better quality? Practice size not the complete answer; When the Patient Is a "Googler"... read more |
| November 19, 2007 | Important ASIPP Update: Final Rule on Issuance of Multiple Prescriptions for Schedule II Controlled Substances read more |
| November 14, 2007 | It's official: 10.1% Medicare pay cut for physicians unless Congress acts; Notice of delay of certain provisions of Phase III; IPM Benchmark Survey Ends... read more |
| November 12, 2007 | Important ASIPP Update: Spinal Cord Stimulation Review Course and Workshop Registration read more |
| November 8, 2007 | News Release: Pain Physician Journal Seeks Editor-in-Chief and Editors read more |
| November 7, 2007 | CMS Releases Final Rule for New ASC Payment System; States strike contract provision pay clause; Look for your IPM Benchmark Survey: Deadline is Nov. 12... read more |
| October 31, 2007 | Congress is back: It is time to start anew; U.S. Makes New Push on E-Health Records; DEA to Host Prescription Drug Abuse Symposium "Good Medicine, Bad Behavior: Drug Diversion in America"... read more |
| October 24, 2007 | House and Senate consider payment reform: Now is the time to act; ASIPP President testifies before Congress; DEA Administrator announces retirement... read more |
| October 17, 2007 | Medicare cuts: Physicians' practices in jeopardy; Call for Abstracts; Look for your IPM Benchmark Survey... read more |
| October 10, 2007 | Tell Congress They Must Act; New Article on Facet Joint Pain in Chronic Spinal Pain; FASA and AAASC announce merger... read more |
| October 3, 2007 | Call for Abstracts; Court rules Medicare plans can be sued for nonpayment; President Signs Bill Delaying Tamper-resitant Prescription Pad Requirement; Expanded SCHIP Bill: Winners and Losers... read more |
| September 26, 2007 | Doctor gets 20 years in prescription case; How one man conquered chronic pain; N.H. Insurer Latest to Launch Statewide E-prescribing... read more |
| September 19, 2007 | The Clock is Running Out: Contact Congress to Prevent Cuts; Tenet Former General Counsel Sulzbach Violated False Claims Act, Feds Allege; Drugs Banned, Many of World's Poor Suffer in Pain... read more |
| September 12, 2007 | Preorders of the Interventional Techniques in Chronic Spinal Pain to be Shipped Next Week; Senators Seek Public Listing of Payments to Doctors; Study Finds Rise in Prescription-Drug Injuries... read more |
| September 5, 2007 | Prescription data firm sues over doctor confidentiality laws; CMS posts Stark III regulations; Public Comment: Spinal Stenosis Performance Measures... read more |
| August 29, 2007 | Illinois Expands Controlled Substance Monitoring; CMS posts Stark III regulations; Medicare Says It Won't Cover Hospital Errors... read more |
| August 22, 2007 | New grant will help North Dakota monitor prescription drug use; AP: Pain medicine use has nearly doubled; Hydrocodone abuse on rise in Appalachia... read more |
| August 15, 2007 | New Capwiz Campaign Begins - Contact Congress to Prevent Cuts; American Heart Association no longer recommends routine antibiotics in patients with mitral valve prolapse before dental procedures, gastrointestinal and genitourinary tract procedures... read more |
| August 8, 2007 | October Cadaver Workshop - Advanced Discography Techniques; Tevi Troy Sworn in as HHS Deputy Secretary; Debate - Should U.S. dispense with TV Drug Ads?... read more |
| August 1, 2007 | Physicians Wanted; GAO Report Addresses Physician Payments; NY Governor Signs New Law Tightens Office Surgery Rules... read more |
| July 25, 2007 | CMS Releases ASC Final Rule, HOPD Proposed Rule and Proposed Physician Payment Rates; PA Law Expands Job Scope of Nurses; OxyContin maker, execs fined $634.5 million... read more |
| July 18, 2007 | CMS Releases ASC Final Rule; CMS won't tap reserve fund to ease Medicare physician pay cuts; Complaints spark state hearing on Blue Cross... read more |
| July 11, 2007 | CCI Releases Third Quarter Updates; Study Finds Electronic Records Don't Always Improve Care; Read 'highly accessed' articles on BioMed Central... read more |
| July 5, 2007 | Medicare wants to cut doctors' pay; Louisiana bill officially defeated!; Georgia Society Annual Meeting... read more |
| June 28, 2007 | ASIPP members visit Capitol Hill; Urbanizing counties sue for better Medicare pay... read more |
| June 20, 2007 | Florida NASPER is signed by Governor; HB 684 killed; America's best places to practice... read more |
| June 13, 2007 | AMA survey: Senior access at risk if Medicare cuts doctor pay 10%; Medicare trustees report issues dire forecast for Part B; HIGH SOCIETY: 2007 Guidelines Accepted in the National Guideline Clearinghouse... read more |
| June 6, 2007 | ASIPP Membership Reaches 4000; ASIPP, AAPM, ISIS with AMA to Conduct Physician Practice Survey; HIGH SOCIETY: How Substance Abuse Ravages America... read more |
| May 30, 2007 | NASPER signed into law in Minnesota; Illicit online drug sales rampant as rogue pharmacy sites grow; ASIPP Launches DocumentShare FTP Site... read more |
| May 23, 2007 | Former pain doctor arrested in Chicago; Preorder your copy of Interventional Techniques in Chronic Spinal Pain; Insurance company wants to cut malpractice rates... read more |
| May 16, 2007 | Pain doctor found guilty of drug trafficking; OxyContin makers admit deception; Addison and Clint join ASIPP as sponsors... read more |
| May 9, 2007 | ASC payment system questioned; Florida passes prescription monitoring bill; CA bill would extend prescribing to psychologists... read more |
| May 2, 2007 | Annual Meeting to Feature Ethics Seminar and Congressional Visits; Blue Cross to Pay Doctors $128 million; WIP to Hold FIPP Exam on Sept. 29... read more |
| Apr. 25, 2007 | Please Continue to Contact Your Senators - Some States Lagging; The Business of Accreditation; First Large-scale Study to Assess Treatment for Prescription Drug Addiction... read more |
| Apr. 18, 2007 | Bill creates Database on Prescription Use in Arizona; Lawmakers Challenge Who Sits on Medical Boards; New York State Soiety to Hold Annual Meeting... read more |
| Apr. 11, 2007 | Register for the Annual Meeting; CMS Letter Sent with 66 Signatures!; CMS Issues Guidance on Compliance with NPI Rule... read more |
| Apr. 4, 2007 | House Letter Gains over 60 Signatures -- Now Senate is Goal; CMS Releases NCCI 2nd Quarter Updates; New York State Chapter to Hold Meeting... read more |
| Mar. 28, 2007 | Medicare pay-for-performance dilemma: Who gets the bonus?; May Cadaver Workshop; Options Sought in Balancing Painkillers... read more |
| Mar. 21, 2007 | More Letters Needed to Fight ASC Cuts; Louisiana Supreme Court denies LSB Writ; ASIPP Member To Make CBS News... read more |
| Mar. 14, 2007 | Room Block Extended - Discounts Offered; Florida forced to pay for recognized off-label uses of Neurontin... read more |
| Mar. 7, 2007 | American Academy of Neurology Publishes Report on Epidural Steroids; Dwindling Street Supply Linked to Drugstore Robberies... read more |
| Feb. 28, 2007 | ASIPP Seeks Nominations - Deadline Extended; ASIPP Files Amicus Curiae in LSBN Issue...read more |
| Feb. 21, 2007 | Register for the Annual Meeting: Facts on NASPER; ASIPP acts to amended NCCI edits...read more |
| Feb. 14, 2007 | ABIPP: Getting certified; Painkiller more available for abuse; Health Insurers Rating Docs...read more |
| Feb. 7, 2007 | Doctror's death shocks collegues; 2007 Guidelines accepted in National Guidelines Clearinghouse...read more |
| Jan. 31, 2007 | FIPP application deadline nears; Congress response to Congressional letters...read more |
| Jan. 24, 2007 | New Limit on Number of Buprenorphine Patients Per Physician; 2007 Guidelines published; Read more |
| Jan. 17, 2007 | Medicare pay freeze could double the cut next year next year; read more |
| Jan. 10, 2007 | 1st Quarter CCI updates and edits; OIG report on modifier 25...read more |
| Jan. 3, 2007 | LA Court of Appeal issues in Favor of IPM Physicians; Teens' abuse of medicine on the rise... read more |
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American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians ®
81 Lakeview Drive, Paducah, KY 42001
Phone 270.554.9412, Fax 270.554.5394
E-mail asipp@asipp.org
