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" The Voice Of Interventional Pain Management "

celebrating our 10th anniversary
 
Health Policy Regulations

bullet Final Rule - Physicians referrals to health care entities with which they have financial relationships (Phase III) – September 5, 2007

bullet  Proposed Rule - Ambulatory surgical centers; coverage conditions – August 31, 2007

bullet  GAO-06-704 Medicare Physician Services: Use of Services Increasing Nationwide and Relatively Few Beneficiaries Report Major Access Problems

bullet  GAO-07-86 - Medicare: Payment for Ambulatory Surgical Centers Should Be Based on the Hospital Outpatient Payment System

bullet  DEA Practitioner’s Manual

bullet  Medicare Issues Proposed Rule for ASC's Serving Medicare Patients

bullet  Texas Workers' Compensation Regulations

 

Useful Links

bullet  Federal Register and Notices

bullet  Limit on Number of Buprenorphine Patients Per Physician

bullet  CMS Rulings

bullet  CMD Rulemaking - Electronic Comment Submission

bullet   Health and Human Services (HHS)

bullet   Pain Physician Journal

bullet   Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

bullet   SAMHSA

bullet   DEA

bullet   GAO

bullet   CMS 855I - (to change your specialty designation code)

bullet   CMS Manual System

bullet   Federal Register

 

Healthcare Update Articles

bullet Health Care Reform in the United States: Radical Surgery Needed Now More Than Ever

bullet Physician Refer Thyself: Is Stark II, Phase III the Final Voyage?

bullet Interventional Techniques in Ambulatory Surgical Centers: A Look at the New Payment System

bullet Physician Payment 2008 for Interventionalists: Current State of Health Care Policy

bullet Interventional Techniques in Ambulatory Surgery Centers: A Look at the New Payment System

bullet National Drug Control Policy and Prescription Drug Abuse: Facts and Fallacies

bullet  2007 Annual Report of the Boards of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplemetary Medical Insurance Trust Funds

bullet  2006 National Survey on Drug Use & Health – September 6, 2007 Results

bullet  National Health Expenditure Trends 1975–2006

bullet  National Health Spending In 2005: The Slowdown Continues - Health Affairs, Number 1, January/ February 2007

bullet  Issues in Health Care: Interventional Pain Management at the Crossroads - Pain Physician, 2007

bullet Prescription drug abuse: What is being done to address this new drug epidemic? Testimony before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources - Pain Physician, 2006

bullet  Health Spending Projections Through 2016: Modest Changes Obscure Part D’s Impact, Feb, 2007

bullet  Medicare in Interventional Pain Management: A Critical Analysis - Pain Physician, 2006

bullet  Do financial incentives in a globally budgeted healthcare payment system produce changes in the way patients are categorized? A five-year study. Am J Manag Care. 2007 Sep;13(9):513-22

bullet  Moving research into practice: lessons from the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's IDSRN program. Implement Sci. 2007 Mar 29;2:9

bullet  How to Appeal Medicare Denial

Download a pdf step-by-step guide through the appeals process

 

medpac - advising the congress on medicare issues

bullet  MedPac Report - A Data Book: Healthcare Spending and the Medicare Program (June 2007)

bullet  Medicare payment basics: Ambulatory surgical centers payment system (September 29, 2006)

bullet  Medicare payment basics: Outpatient hospital services payment system (September 29, 2006)

bullet  Medicare payment basics: Physician services payment system (September 29, 2006)

bullet  Report to the Congress: Physician-Owned Specialty Hospitals Revisited (August 2006)

bullet  Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2006)

 

 

 

 

 


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