October 6, 2010
Comprehensive Review and Cadaver Workshop |
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Register today to attend the Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop in Interventional Pain Management on November 19-21 in Memphis, Tenn.
This course offers basic, intermediate, and comprehensive interventional pain management examintion levels to assure a focused learning experience.
With our excellent participant/instructor ratio, you will have the opportunity for personal interaction with our highly distinguished faculty of renowned teachers and lecturers, creating a thorough and compelling educational experience.
During the 2½-day Comprehensive Review Course and Cadaver Workshop, you can improve existing skills and/or learn new techniques. Whether you have been practicing interventional pain management for many years or are new to the field with basic skills, we are confident you will find this course and workshop to be beneficial - as it is essential that we continue learning and exploring new procedures and techniques in our specialty. Click HERE to register.
The course will take place at the Memphis Peabody on Friday and at the Medical Educaton and Research Institute (MERI) on Saturday and Sunday. The ASIPP discounted room block is available until October 26. Call 901-529-4164 for reservations.
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Coding, Compliance, and Practice Management Review Course |
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Register today to attend the Billing, Coding and Practice Management Review Course on November 19-20 in Memphis, TN. This will be the last time this year this course will be offered and it will only be offered one time next year (August 3-4 in St. Louis).
The course is designed to meet the unique billing, coding and practice management needs of interventional pain physicians, health care professionals, and their staff. experience.
The Comprehensive Review Course in Coding, Compliance and Practice Management is not only an essential element in Interventional Pain Management, but also beneficial to you as a physician and to your practice. Coding, Compliance and Practice Management is an area which is critical to our field yet one in which few have adequate training. In today's environment of ever-changing regulations and litigations, we cannot afford to ignore this important and complex subject.
On Saturday evening, November 20th, we offer the opportunity for you to sit for the American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians' Competency Examination. By successfully completing the coding, compliance and practice management competency examination, you are demonstrating to your colleagues, patients, insurers, payors, etc. that you understand the complexities of this aspect of our unique specialty. This examination will not be offered again until August 5, 2011.
Click HERE to register.Register by October 26 to receive a reduced registration fee and hotel discount.
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Study: Computerized Order Entry System Has Unintended Consequences |
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When researchers at the University of Pennsylvania proposed a randomized study to see if a computerized physician order entry system could prevent doctors from prescribing a potentially harmful drug combination, the institutional review board almost didn't want to allow it.
The anti-clotting drug warfarin and a certain antibiotic can produce hazardous effects when taken together. So it seemed obvious a system set up to block the drugs from being combined would be safer for patients - so obvious that the board thought it would be unethical for any patients to be randomized to the existing system of using the pharmacist as gatekeeper.
Wall Street Journal Health Blog |
Do You know Your Specialty Designation? Here's How |
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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. One reason for this may be that many physicians don't actually know what their primary specialty code is.
One quick way to check your specialty is through the free online (PECOS) search. You may search by name or NPI number.
Once you have determined your status, you can change your designation online through the CMS Internet-based Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System PECOS).
Internet-based PECOS can be used in lieu of the Medicare enrollment application (i.e., paper CMS-855) to:
- Submit an initial Medicare enrollment application
- View or change your enrollment information
- Track your enrollment application through the web submission process
- Add or change a reassignment of benefits
- Submit changes to existing Medicare enrollment information
- Reactivate an existing enrollment record
- Withdraw from the Medicare Program
CMS Internet-based PECOS |
Nurses' Push For Bigger Role Gets Powerful Ally |
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A new report released on Tuesday may give nurses with advanced degrees a potent weapon in their perennial battle to get the authority to practice without a doctor's oversight.
It calls for states and the federal government to remove barriers that restrict what care advanced practice nurses - those with a master's degree - provide and includes many examples of nurses taking on bigger responsibilities. "A qualified health care professional is a terrible thing to waste," Cheryll Jones, a pediatric nurse practitioner in Ottumwa, Iowa, told the authors.
The Institute of Medicine report says nurses should take on a larger and more independent role in providing health care in America, something many doctors have repeatedly opposed, citing potential safety concerns.
Kaiser Health News |
Doctors, patients use smartphones, but can't make mobile connection |
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Joel De Ocampo, MD, a neurologist and sleep specialist from Scottsdale, Ariz., is disappointed that he can't read his patients' headache journals on his smartphone. His patients have expressed similar regrets.
And yet, Dr. De Ocampo's patients are still writing their journals on paper, and he is still reading them in that format.
amednews.com |
Cost Should Enter Effectiveness Equation, Researchers Say |
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Although the healthcare reform law forbids it, using cost factors in comparative effectiveness research could save billions of dollars and put Medicare on a more secure financial footing, researchers argued. Writing in the single-topic October issue of Health Affairs, they criticized the current payment model, in which Medicare covers any treatment that is deemed "reasonable and necessary," regardless of how it stacks up in cost or efficacy against other comparable treatments.
"The time is ripe for Medicare to use comparative effectiveness research to reach a new paradigm, wh
ich would include equal payments for services that provide equivalent results," wrote authors Steven Pearson, MD, MPH, and Peter Bach, MD.
MedPage Today |
Deadline for IPM Practice Benchmark Survey Extended |
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The deadline has been extended to October 31, 2010 to complete the Interventional Pain Management Practice Benchmark Survey. We ask you to take a few minutes out of your day to complete this survey if you have not already done so.
This information will be utilized to determine data for interventional pain. There is no other source for this information in the Interventional Pain Management community and we must depend on one another for this key practice information.
Our purpose is to provide the ASIPP membership with timely information that you can use to compare your practice performance with your peers. The higher the level of participation, the more value the survey will have to our membership.
Please Send Completed Survey To: ASIPP Practice Benchmark Survey c/o Gary M. Janko Executive Vice President Pain Solutions Management Group 21 Eastman Avenue Bedford, NH 03110 or email to gjanko@painsolutionsusa.com
IPM Benchmark Survey |
Future of ASCs in Five Years: 10 Predictions on the Most Common Ownership Model |
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As of 2006, the most common ownership structure of an ASC was 100 percent physician-owned (61 percent of ASCs), followed by hospital/physician-owned (16 percent of ASCs) and corporation/physician-owned (11 percent of ASCs), according to data provided by VMG Health in the 2009 Intellimarker.
With the healthcare reform law, payor issues, the decline in available physicians for recruitment and other challenges impacting the financial stability of ASCs, what will be the most common ASC ownership structure in five years - physician-owned, ASC, joint-venture ASC or HOPD? Here are 10 predictions.
Becker's ASC Review |
Physicians Wanted |
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Visit the ASIPP Web site to find available positions for IPM physicians.
Physicians Wanted |
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