·  ASIPP 11th Annual Meeting - Register Early and Save

·  Physicians Get Delay in FTC Enforcement of Identity Theft Rules

·  Medicine Scores Legal Victories in scope of Practice

·  Obama Calls for Urgency in Passing Health-Care Bill

·  Manchikanti Discusses Current Trends in Interventional Pain Management

·  How ObamaCare Will Affect Your Doctor

·  Will a new nationwide database reduce an 'epidemic' of prescription drug abuse?

·  Billing software helps doctors get paid

·  Physicians Wanted

ASIPP 11th Annual Meeting - Register Early and Save

The ASIPP Annual Meeting is the premier Educational Forum for Evidence-based Medicine for Interventional Pain Management! This is a first-time opportunity to learn about the importance of evidence-based medicine in IPM as it applies to you, your patients, and your practice. In addition, this year we offer an extensive program that covers the essential elements of practice management including extensive presentation on Billing and Coding.

Listen to our distinguished faculty and learn from these experts the cutting-edge research and the importance of guidelines, IPM techniques as they apply to evidence-based medicine. Discover many important "pearls" for Billing and Coding. Hear how you can run your ASC or office more efficiently through best practices. Interventional Pain Management is continually growing and evolving, and there is no better time to stay abreast of the field and learn about emerging issues.

We welcome and encourage all ASIPP members and guests to attend the 11th Annual Meeting. This program offers something for everyone; physicians, administrators, nurses, educators, etc. We also invite you to attend the ASIPP "Night at the Oscars" Business Dinner Meeting on Saturday evening. The night will hold dinner, awards, entertainment, and dancing.

On Tuesday we will bring Capitol Hill to you. Presentations will be made by many distinguished congressional and governmental speakers who will address how the changing economy and administration will affect healthcare and Interventional Pain Management in particular, MCAC, etc.

You won't want to miss the award winning 2009 ASIPP Annual Meeting! Join us on June 27-30, 2009, in Washington, DC.

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Physicians Get Delay in FTC Enforcement of Identity Theft Rules

Clamor from the medical community has prompted the Federal Trade Commission again to delay, this time from May 1 to Aug. 1, enforcement of new regulations to combat identity theft. The latest last- minute reprieve gives organized medicine more time to air concerns that what it considers an overreaching interpretation by the FTC of the "red flags" rules will prove burdensome for doctors (Sorrel, American Medical News, May 11, 2009)..

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Medicine Scores Legal Victories in scope of Practice

In the face of bolder attempts by nonphysicians to expand their scope of practice, physicians say court victories in Louisiana and Kentucky send a strong message about the importance of safeguarding patient safety and the practice of medicine (Sorrel, M

The Louisiana Supreme Court on April 13 declined to disturb an appeals court decision that rebuffed a nursing board rule allowing certified registered nurse anesthetists to perform interventional pain management procedures. The 1st Circuit Court of Appeal in December 2008 unanimously found that the rule violated state laws governing the practice of medicine.

amednews.com

Obama Calls for Urgency in Passing Health-Care Bill

President Barack Obama pressed lawmakers to send him a health-care bill before the end of the year, saying overhaul is needed to bolster the federal budget and make care more affordable for consumers and businesses. "We've got to get it done this year, we've got to get it done this year both in the House and the Senate," Mr. Obama said in remarks after an Oval Office meeting with Democrats from the House of Representatives. "We don't have any excuses, the stars are aligned." (Pulizzi, The Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2009)

The Wall Street Journal

Manchikanti Discusses Current Trends in Interventional Pain Management

Interventional pain management is experiencing challenges and changes both similar to and unique from other specialties in the ASC setting. Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, medical director of the Pain Management Center of Paducah and Ambulatory Surgery Center in Paducah, Ky., discusses five current trends in interventional pain management (Tomcanin, Becker's ASC Review, May 1, 2009).

Becker's ASC Review

How ObamaCare Will Affect Your Doctor

At the heart of President Barack Obama's health- care plan is an insurance program funded by taxpayers, administered by Washington, and open to everyone. Modeled on Medicare, this "public option" will soon become the single dominant health plan, which is its political purpose. It will restructure the practice of medicine in the process (Opinion piece by Gottlieb, The Wall Street Journal, May 12, 2009).

The Wall Street Journal

Will a new nationwide database reduce an 'epidemic' of prescription drug abuse?

The Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 included funding for The National All Schedules Prescription Reporting (NASPER) law, which passed in 2005 and was intended to coordinate prescription drug monitoring in all 50 states (Barlow, Daily Finance, May 10, 2009).

Daily Finance

Billing software helps doctors get paid

Dr. Ben Carson's skills as a neurosurgeon led him to the top of his profession and made him the subject of a made-for-TV movie, but his frustration with the draconian billing systems employed by insurance companies nearly drove him out of medicine (Lengell, The Washington Times, May 12, 2009).

The Washington Times

Physicians Wanted

Visit the ASIPP Web site to find available positions for IPM physicians.

Physicians Wanted