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| 2013 NEWS ALERTS |
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| May 1 | Manchikanti and Hirsch Published in Harvard Health Policy Review; FDA Updates OxyContin Label, Blocks Generics; When Your M.D. Is an Algorithm; read more… |
| April 17 | Manchikanti and Hirsch Published in Harvard Health Policy Review; Affordable Care Act Enrollment Right around the Corner; FDA Updates OxyContin Label, Blocks Generics; read more… |
| April 10 | Some fear EHR meaningful use is too much, too soon for doctors; 10 Essential Elements for Excellence in ASC Infection Control Programs; Doctors driven to bankruptcy; read more… |
| April 3 |
Medicare Advantage Insurers Win Round; CMS Changes Course, Will Raise 2014 Medicare Advantage Payments; Image Sharing Seeks to Reduce Repeat Scans; read more… |
| March 20 | The End of Fee-for-Service in 5 Years?; EHR User Satisfaction Decreasing, According to Study; Risk of Deadly TB Exposure Grows Along U.S.-Mexico Border; read more… |
| March 6 | FDA Warns Against Codeine for Children; BCBSNC Kicks Off Orthopedic Bundles; Billions in Extra Cash Fail to Stop Rot in NHS; read more… |
| February 20 | ASIPP Member Defends ASIPP Guidelines; Opioid Overdose Deaths Topped 16,000 in 2010; Should States Opt Out of the Health Law's Medicaid Expansion?; read more… |
| February 6 | New HIPAA Requirements Complicate Compliance; 2013 Final Fee Schedules and Coding Updates: Physician Reimbursement Dropped Sharply; read more… |
| January 2, 2013 | Doctor Pay Freeze Until 2014 - 26.5% Cut Averted; 2% Sequester Postponed 2 Months; ASIPP Asks CMS to take Epidural Injections off NCD List; Dirty Needles Put Tens of Thousands at Risk in USA; read more… |
| 2012 NEWS ALERTS | |
| Dec. 19 | Upton Prepares 'Doc Fix' Package in Case Broader Deal Falls Apart; It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad ObamaCare; More Predictions of Rate Shock Because of the New Health Law; read more… |
| Dec. 5 | National Coverage Decision: A Real Cliff for IPM; Additional Contamination Identified in Medical Products from NECC; Insurers Must Guide Individual Market in 2014; read more… |
| Nov. 21 | Update: Multistate Outbreak of Fungal Meningitis; CMS Issues Final Rule for 2013 Physician Reimbursement; Why Healthcare Costs Trillions Less in Canada; read more… |
| Oct. 31 | Why Doctors Prescribe Opioids to Known Abusers; Second Mass. Compounding Pharmacy Surrenders License; Opinion: Advertising the Truth about Who's a Physician; read more… |
| Oct. 24 | CDC Responds to Multistate Fungal Meningitis Outbreak; State Alleged Problems With Pharmacy in '02; Survey: Potential Medicare cuts to affect physician EHR adoption; read more… |
| Oct. 17 | The Latest: Drug Recall Information for Meningitis Multi-State Outbreak; Lawmakers Urge Probe, Hearings in Wake of Meningitis Outbreak; Positive News on Positive News on the CRNA Saga; read more… |
| Oct. 10 | The Latest: Drug Recall Information for Meningitis Multi-State Outbreak; The CRNA Saga Continues; Effectiveness Research Slow to Change Practice; read more… |
| Oct. 3 | Wall Street Journal Publishes Article on CRNAs in IPM: Nurses Seek Expanded Role; Multi-State Outbreak of Meningitis Following Epidural Injections; CCI 4th Quarter Updates Now Available: Read more... |
| Oct. 1 | Meningitis Following a Multi-State Outbreak of Epidural Injections; read more... |
| Sept. 26 | Prescription Drug Abuse Contributes to Decreasing Life Expectancy among Less Educated Whites in US; Ky. Part of National Prescription Drug Initiatives; Prescription pain pill epidemic plows path to street drugs; read more… |
| Sept. 19 | Articles Address Health Care Issues Relating to IPM; MedPAC Calls for Mandatory ASC Cost Reporting; More Docs Hope to Call D.C. Home; AMA Releases 2013 CPT Code Set ; read more… |
| Sept. 12 | Medicare Region C Recovery Auditor to Begin Audits; Will U.S. Physicians be Forced to 'Heel' by Executive Order?; New FDA Device Helps ID Fake Drugs; read more… |
| Sept. 5 | Unsupervised Anesthesia Care by a Nurse Anesthetist is a Threat to Patient Safety; Doctors Say Methadone Too Risky for Pain Management; Drug Shortage Dilemma: Trying New Tactics in a Tough Arena; read more… |
| August 29 | Medicare Pay: Budget Sequester Adds to Annual Payment Rate Woes; ASCs and Physicians Face Potential Payment Cuts in January 2013; Same Doctor Visit, Double the Cost; read more… |
| August 22 | CMS Proposes IPM Privileges for CRNAs: Time to Act Now or Never; Federal Court Dismisses Stark Law Challenge; Health Care Costs and the Affordable Care Act; read more… |
| August 15 | CMS Proposes IPM Privileges for CRNAs: Time to Act Now; E-prescribing Up, But Progress by States is Uneven; Ambiguity in Health Law Could Make Family Coverage Too Costly for Many; read more… |
| August 8 | CMS Proposes IPM Privileges for CRNAs: Time to Act Now or Never!; Colorado Court Rules Nurse Anesthetists Don't Need Physician Supervision; Ruling on Contributory Liability Defense Could Expose Physicians to More Lawsuits; read more… |
| August 1 | Prescription Drug Abuse Bill Making its Mark Just Days After Going into Effect, KY Officials Say; AMA Pushes for More Useful Explanations of Physician Performance Data and Methodology; read more… |
| July 25 | Is the FDA to Blame for Drug Shortages?; Health Information Exchanges to Combine Analytics, 'Actionable' Data: IDC; read more… |
| July 18 | ASIPP Releases Opioid Guidelines; Unlimited Practice Privileges for CRNAs: The Fight Continues to Brew; CMS Releases Proposed Policy and Payment Changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule; read more… |
| July 11 | Unlimited Practice Privileges for CRNAs: The Fight Continues; CMS Releases Proposed Policy and Payment Changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule; read more… |
| July 5 | What's Next for Physicians after Affordable Care Act Ruling; Congress OKs Plan to Combat Drug Shortages; ASIPP Releases Opioid Guidelines; read more… |
| June 27 | Four Likely Outcomes of the Supreme Court's ACA Ruling; California Court Allows Unsupervised Nurse Anesthetists to Administer Anesthesia; Economists See Health Spending Bouncing Back; read more… |
| June 20 | Health Care’s Big Four Issues: What the Justices are Tracking; Some States Too Small to Succeed with Health Exchanges; Healthcare Prices up 0.2%; read more…. |
| June 14 | Medicare limits coverage of TENS for low back pain; Two insurers will keep ACA Provisions; Early Sunshine Laws show little effect on prescribing; read more... |
| June 6 | Multiple regulations in Tennessee; Missouri pain bill still awaiting governor’s signature; Medical boards get more tools to investigate physicians; read more… |
| May 30 | Most doctors headed for penalty over Medicare quality reporting; The Medicaid money trail?; Proposed changes to psychiatric manual could impact addiction diagnosis; read more… |
| May 23 | As Maryland goes full stream ahead on health reform law, Virginia takes pragmatic path; Drug makers pledge transparency to tackle credibility problem in journals; SB 682 Pages MO legislature; Headed to governor for signature; read more… |
| May 16 | Join the fight on single dose vial policy; Senate panel investigates drug companies’ ties to pain groups; Medicaid reimbursements rate hike proposed; read more… |
| May 9 | Senate Investigating 10 Professional Organizations and Pharmaceutical Companies; Opinion: A Gathering Storm of Federal Regulations; Medicare Modifies Ordering, Referring Rules for Physicians; read more |
| May 2 | Physicians fight unworkable Medicare overpayment rule; Dire Medicare outlook assumes deep physician pay cuts; DEA diversion investigation leads to $500K settlement in Internet pharmacy case; read more… |
| April 25 | Medicare Trustees Forecast Bleak Future for Program; More Physicians Calling the Shots in latest Round of ACOs; CMS May Bump Cervical Spine Arthroplasty form “Inpatient Only” List; read more… |
| April 18 | CMS rules contribute to drug shortages, hospital pharmacists say; End-of-Life Care: Pain Control Carries Risk of Being Called a Killer; read more… |
| April 11 | DEA Hikes Registration Fees For Controlled Substance Prescriptions ; Physicians Groups Want Calif. SC to Review Anesthetists Case; ICD-10 Deadline Delayed 1 Year Under HHS Proposal: read more… |
| April 4 | Health System Reform: Abstract Debate Inside Supreme Court As Protest Signs Dominate Outside; House Passes IPAB Repeal, Medical Liability Reform Bill; read more… |
| March 28 | ASIPP Works on Pill Mill Bill in KY: Kentucky Joins Program to Share Prescription Drug Data and Adds Pain Management Doctor to Medical Board; Pharma Scales Back Drug Samples to Physician Offices; read more… |
| March 21 | Get Connected with ASIPP through our Social Media; Release of Comparative Billing Report (CBR) on Pain Management Services Expected; U.S. Supreme Court Deals Blow to Biotech Companies; read more… |
| March 14 | CMS Deletes Nerve Block Edits in Response to ASIPP Letter; Panel to Examine Doc Pay Issues; FDA Panel Says ‘Yes’ to Pain Drug Studies; read more…. |
| March 7 | House Committee Approves IPAB Repeal; MO Law Prohibiting CRNAs from Practicing IPM Passed in Committee; ABMS Establishes Time Limits for Attaining Board Certification; read more… |
| February 29 | 2012 Payroll Tax/SGR bill: what it means for physicians and ASCs; KY legislators propose drug bill; How prescription drug abuse costs you money; read more… |
| February 22 | CMS will re-examine ICD-10 timeline; Deal near on SGR fix; Ne evidence points to a “profits over efficacy” approach to drug testing: read more… |
| February 15 | CMS Will Re-Examine ICD-10 Timeline; Deal Near on SGR Fix; More Than Four Life Sentences for Dr. Paul Volkman: Illegally Prescribed Drugs Resulting in Four Deaths; read more… |
| February 8 | Washington Watch: SGR Action Starts Up Again; Unspent War Funds Eyed to Avoid Medicare Physician Pay Cuts; Oxycodone Orders by Pharmacies 20 Times Average; read more… |
| February 1 | Bill to Reduce Regulatory Burdens and Provide Better Medical Care for Patients Introduced in US House of Representatives; 'Guest Authors' Could Face Legal Trouble; FDA and Industry Reach Agreement in Principle on Medical Device User Fees; read more… |
| January 25 | Critical Shortage of Essential Drugs Due to Single Dose Vial Policy; Spending Growth on Physician Services Record Low; Bristol-Myers Warning Ignored on Steroid Shots Tied to Deaths; read more… |
| January 18 | Medicare Intensifying Documentation Reviews before Payment; CMS Corrects 2012 Medicare Rates; Small Medical Practices Greatly at Risk for Data Breaches; read more… |
| January 11 | A Look Back at the Big Stories of 2011; 1st Quarter NCCI Edits; Consumers Warned about Possible Drug Mix-up; HHS Publishes New Medicaid Quality Measures; read more… |
| January 4 | Only 22% of Payors Fully Ready to Support ICD-10; Doctors Have to Manage Smartphone Distractions; Commentary Rx Drug Database is Worth Sparing; read more… |
| 2011 ALERTS | |
| December 28 | New Powerful Painkiller Concerns Experts; Health Care Future Bright for Nurses, Dark for Docs; Epidurals Linked to Paralysis Cloud Pain Market; read more… |
| December 21 | Congressional Deadlock Leaves Medicare 27.4% Pay Cut in Place -- For Now; What's To Become of the 'Doc Fix'?; Five Reasons Your Doctor Hates ObamaCare; Dates Set for Supreme Court Health Care Reform Arguments; read more… |
| December 14 | HHS Audits the 1% and the Rest: First HIPAA Privacy and Security Audits Begin; Survey: Doctors Have Mixed Feelings about Health Law; Rx Drug Fraud Move Part of HHS Plan to Cut Costs; Payroll Tax Holiday Act: Bad Politics, Bad Policy; read more… |
| December 7 | Judge rules Iowa nurses not train to oversee fluoroscopy; CMS tightening up on unnecessary procedures in Florida and 10 other states; Back and arthritis pain drugs top sales in chronic therapies market; read more… |
| November 30 | 3% tax withholding on Medicare pay repealed; Misuse of Carisoprodol doubles over five years, study shows; Sharp fall in print media use accounts for most of decline; read more… |
| November 23 | Health Care Drowning in Regulatory Burdens; Is There a Doctor Fix in the House and Senate; When is Too Much Information Too Much?; read more… |
| November 16 | FDA Releases Draft of Opioid Continuing Education; Delegates Approve New Scope of Practice Policies; AMA Adopts Policy to Stop ICD-10 Implementation; read more… |
| November 9 | CMS Releases Final Rates; The Impact of Health care Reform on IPM; CDC Issues Report on Prescription Opioid Overdoses: read more… |
| November 2 | Published Trial Finds Caudal Epidural Injections to Be Effective; CMS Adopts Policy and Payment Changes for Outpatient Care in Hospitals and ASCs; read more… |
| October 26 | CPT Coding Changes Announced; CMS Releases Dramatically Revised final ACO Regulations; read more… |
| Oct. 19 | 2012 CPT Coding Changes Announced; HHS Sec. Sebelius Announces Drop of CLASS Act; Lawsuit Filed to Block Illegal Denials of Services to Medicare Patients with Chronic Illness; read more… |
| Oct. 12 | Obama Gambles on Health Reform Before Supreme Court; OIG to Compare Surgery Center Payment Rates; read more… |
| Oct. 5 | Lawmakers Refereeing ‘Turf Battle’ over Interventional Pain Management Care; Fourth Quarter CCI Updates Released; Medicare Patients Abusing, Selling Rx Drugs, GAO Says; read more… |
| Sept. 28 | Mistakes in Scientific Studies Surge; GA Doctors Develop Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Program; Advisory Panel Proposes Medicare Physician Pay Cuts; read more… |
| Sept. 21 | ASIPP Requests CIGNA Coverage of Interventional Techniques; MedPAC Discusses SGR Repeal Recommendations; Proposed Rule Requires Insurers to Explain Costs and Benefits; read more… |
| Sept. 14 | 5 ways to manage your online reputation; DEA moves to emergency control of synthetic stimulants; Hardship waivers: last chance to avoid Medicare E-Prescribing penalty; read more… |
| September 7 | HHS Bolsters Scrutiny of Researchers’ Drug Industry Ties; CMS Announces 2011 Electronic Prescribing (ERX) Incentive Program Final Rule; Opinion: Doctors Will Remain a Target Until They Wake Up; read more… |
| August 31 | Most Physicians Must Revalidate Medicare Enrollment by 2013; Most Doctors Will Face Lawsuits but Few Lose; read more… |
| August 24 | Current and Future State of Pain Management: Q&A with Dr. Laxmaiah Manchikanti; Noridian re-releases CRNA Practice and Chronic Pain Management Coverage; CMS Testing Bundled Payments for Medicare; read more… |
| August 17 | Price Gouging Spikes Drug Costs Up to 4500%; Physician Organizations Fight States’ Proposed Cutbacks to Medicaid; Doctors Sue HHS; CMS Over ‘Secretive’ Payment Committee; read more… |
| August 10 | How Debt Deal Could Squeeze Medicare Pay More; Health System Reform Law Expected to Spark Spending Rebound: Georgia Doctors Sue CMS; read more… |
| August 3 | Expert Witnesses on Trail; Average U.S. Health Spending to Rise 5.8 Percent Annually through 2020; U.S. Continues to Outspend other Nations on Healthcare; read more… |
| July 27, 2011 | States May Get Substantial Power over Health Insurance Exchanges; Fewer Americans See Smoking as Risky Survey; Walter Reed Closing in September; read more… |
| July 20, 201 | Quest for SGR Reform: Avoiding the Eleventh-hour Drama; Medicare Proposes a 50% Cut for Some Imaging Fees in 2012; Concierge Medicine Offers Hands-on Care at a Price; Read more… |
| July 13, 2011 | Chronic pain costs U.S. $635 billion per year; Support grows for ASC bill; FDA declines to approve Remoxy; read more… |
| July 6, 2011 | CMS announces 2012 proposed fee schedule; AMA finds insurers mishandle 1 in 5 claims; Doctors’ challenge: How real is that pain?; read more… |
| June 30, 2011 | IOM Report Calls for Cultural Attitude Transformation toward Pain Prevention and Management; Appeals Court Upholds Health Care Laws Individual Mandate; read more… |
| June 22, 2011 | Ohio Medical Board Regulating Pain Clinics; Weaning the Hill Off Medicare Formula; Medicare Claims Soon to Be Open for Data Mining; read more… |
| June 15, 2011 | ASIPP Requests NCCI Policy Changes: CMS Agrees on Multiple Requests; Board of Directors Election Results; IOM report targets accuracy of Medicare regional payments; more |
| June 8, 2011 | Medicare to offer more waivers from e-prescribing penalty; IOM report says flawed Medicare data lead to inaccurate payments; read more… |
| June 1, 2011 | Study says industry supported CME offers potential for bias; Can an insurer settle a malpractice suit against your wishes?; Vermont governor signs health care law; read more… |
| May 25, 2011 | Next steps on Medicare reform now; Medicaid physician pay swept up in battle over funding and access; Congress eyes new Medicare payment models; read more... |
| May 18, 2011 | Prescription drug addiction addressed; AMA unveils SGR replacement plans; read more… |
| May 11, 2011 | The real Medicare debate: Deciding who decides; Two more senators introduce bills to publish Medicare claims data; Coalition pushes for safe injection practices; read more… |
| May 5, 2011 | OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO REQUIRE PHYSICAIN TRAINING FOR PRESCRIBING ADDICTIVE PAIN KILLERS; read release |
| May 4, 2011 | Adverse events: Ten times more; Rx side effects causing more hospitalizations; Electronic medical records: What your data can tell you; read more… |
| April 27, 2011 | Tennessee State Bill SB 1935 Passes in Senate Committee; analysis of Opioid Prescription Practices Finds Areas of Concern; The Origin of Opioid Guidelines: Is it Science or Promotion of Opioids?; read more… |
| April 20, 2011 | Obama administration releases plan to address national prescription drug abuse epidemic; CMS may require some doctors to get pre-authorization for imaging; read more… |
| April 13, 2011 | UnitedHealth Subsidiary Buying Logistics Health; HHS Announces Nationwide Effort to Reduce Medical Errors; AMA Launches Coding App Designed for Doctors; read more… |
| April 6, 2011 | Noridian Medicare: CRNAs Cannot Independently Practice Chronic Pain; Bill would Post Every Physician’s Medicare Billing Data on Internet; read more… |
| March 30, 2011 | Washington State Approves Multiple Injections with the Exception of Therapeutic Facet Joint Injections; Ultrasound at $59,490 Spurs Aetna Outrage in Suit Naming Doctor; read more… |
| March 23, 2011 | A Panel Decides Washington State’s Health Care Costs; MedPAC Calls for Small Pay Increas for Docs in 2012; read more… |
| March 16, 2011 | Florida Senate Panel Strengthens Drug Monitoring; GAO Echoes Physician Concerns on EMR e-Prescribing Bonuses; $3 Billion Lawsuit Alleges Medicare Underpayment to Physicians; read more… |
| March 9, 2011 | GAO reports $48B in Medicare fraud in 2010; In health law, Rx for trouble; HHS opens door to Medicaid eligibility cuts; Read more… |
| March 2, 2011 | Medtronic Issues Clarifications on SynchroMed Infusion System Pocket Fill Recall; Study Finds Inconsistencies in Black Box Warnings; read more… |
| February 23, 2011 | Obama Budget Would Delay Medicare Pay Cuts; Safety Alert: Urgent Medical Device Correction and Recall; read more… |
| February 16, 2011 | Urgent Message for IPM Physicians in Washington State; NHS Shamed over Callous Treatment of Elderly; PT Providers Will See site Visits Under Anti-Fraud rule; read more… |
| February 9, 2011 | Washington State Creates a Health Care Shadow Government: The Tragedy of Evidence-Based Medicine Results in Needless Pain; Chou and Manchikanti Respond to APS Guidelines Critique; read more… |
| February 8, 2011 | The ability for physicians in Washington State to treat patients in the is at risk. The ISIS leadership has made us aware of a critical issue in the State of Washington and is asking for your help to preserve coverage for appropriately performed spinal injections. read more... |
| February 2, 2011 | House Shifts to medical Liability Overhaul after Health Reform Vote; Senate to Vote on Health Law Repeal; Retired NFL Players More Likely to Take Painkillers; read more… |
| January 26, 2011 | Patients Hit with Add-on Charges; Wall Street Journal Files to Open Medicare Database; read more… |
| January 19, 2011 | MedPAC Recommends 1% Medicare Raise for 2012; Prescription Drug Containers May Get Simpler Labels; read more… |
| January 12, 2011 | NCCI 1st Quarter Updates; Lawmakers Settle for Short-Term Spending Measure; Survey: 41 Percent of Mid-Sized Practices are Struggling; read more… |
| Jenuary 5, 2011 | A New Year Gift: Congress Gives – Administration Takes it Back; New Imaging Disclosure Requirements Could mean Opportunity for Radiologists; Seven More Hospitals Settle in Kyphoplasty Fraud Case; Read more… |
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