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2025
- Significant Medicare Physician Reimbursement Methodology Changes Finalized for 2026 with No Significant Changes for Ambulatory Surgery Center Payments
- Call to Action – Public Comments on Proposed LCD for Peripheral Nerve Blocks & Procedures for Chronic Pain
- UPDATE: Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) to lift the claims hold and process claims with dates of service October 1, 2025, and later
- CMS announces most payments to physicians will be paid “in a timely manner” except for telehealth and certain other services, as government shutdown continues
- Medicare Releases Proposed LCD on Peripheral Nerve Blocks and Procedures for Chronic Pain With Elimination of Almost All Peripheral Nerve Blocks From Coverage Policy
- 35-Year Analysis of Global Chronic Pain Trials Highlights Dr. Laxmaiah Manchikanti as Most Published Author and the Pain Physician Journal Takes Third Place
- Update on Medicare Operations: Telehealth, Claims Processing, and Medicare Administrative Contractors Status During the Shutdown
- ASIPP Files Comments to CMS on Physician Fee Schedule: ASIPP Requests Elimination of Cuts, Introduction of a Modifier for Independent Physicians
- Important News: ASIPP Files Comments to CMS on Physician Fee Schedule: ASIPP Requests Elimination of Cuts, Introduction of a Modifier for Independent Physicians
- Important News: Aetna and Cigna Announce Automatic Downcoding Policies
- Congress Moves to Extend Telehealth Access Through 2027
- Requesting support to CMS and Congressional Members to Revise Proposed Physician Payment Rule to Separate the Cuts Applied for Hospital-Based Physicians from Independent Physicians
- Non-Partisan Proposal for Reforming Physician Payment System and Preserving Telehealth Services
- Important News: Medicare Physician Fee Schedule & Ambulatory Surgery Center Rule
- Gabor B. Racz, MD, in Memoriam
- Impact of One Big Beautiful Bill on Physician Payment Reform
- ASIPP Submits Non-Partisan Budget Reconciliation Proposal for Physician Payment Reform
- ASIPP Responds to Damaging BMJ Publications Threatening Patient Access to Interventional Spine Care
- ASIPP Advocacy Update: ASIPP Recently Met with Congress to Advocate for Several Critical Issues, Including the Extension of Telehealth Services
- Bill Passes House for Telehealth Provisions – Senate Must Approve for a 6-Month Extension
- Pain Medicine Case Reports journal has been accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE and PubMed
- Telehealth Changes in the Final Rule 2025 of Physician Payments CMS-1807-F and CMS-4201-F5
- Peripheral Nerve Stimulation Guidelines Available
- CMS Releases Final 2025 Fee Schedule
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