In addition, ASIPP will be offering multiple afternoon breakout sessions includes sections on:

• Compliance Billing and Coding
• Responsible Controlled Substance Prescribing
• Endoscopic Decompression
• Regenerative Medicine
• Practce Management
• Ambulatory Surgery Center Payment Systems
• Emerging Concepts in IPM
• Abstract Session
• Current and Future Concepts in IPM

• Some of Obamacare’s signature features are gone immediately, such as the tax on people who don’t purchase health care. Other protections, including the ban on discriminating people with pre-existing conditions and the provision that allows young adults to stay on their parents’ plan through age 26, would survive.
• The plan maintains the Medicaid expansion — for now. The Affordable Care Act expanded Medicaid to cover millions of low-income Americans. And, in a big shift from previous drafts of the legislation, which ended Medicaid expansion immediately, this bill would continue to that coverage expansion through January 1, 2020. At that point, enrollment would “freeze,” and legislators expect enrollees would drop out of the program as their incomes change.

House Republican leaders are set to take the politically risky gamble Wednesday of asking their colleagues to vote on a bill replacing the Affordable Care Act without official estimates of the GOP plan’s cost or coverage losses.

By moving ahead without an official “score” from the Congressional Budget Office—an estimate of how much the bill would cost and how many people might lose coverage over the next 10 years—Republican leaders are asking members to vote on a bill without independent verification that it achieves what it claims. The unknowns surrounding the bill also have served as a boon to its opponents, including some House conservatives, who are resisting moving ahead without a better understanding of its cost implication.

• FY 2016 Chart
• Interactive Map
• Podcast about Medicaid Fraud Control Units

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A New Jersey doctor was indicted Thursday on charges that he sold prescriptions for addictive opioid painkillers to people who had no medical need for them, including one man who died from an overdose.

Dr. Byung Kang, of Little Falls, was charged with one count of "strict liability" for the drug–induced death of 26–year–old Michael Justice, of Clifton. Justice's mother had called Kang 18 months earlier threatening to call police if he didn't stop prescribing her son oxycodone, according to a statement from Attorney General Christopher Porrino.

Kang's attorney said he hadn't yet reviewed the indictment that also charges Kang with money laundering, tax fraud and drug distribution. Kang's wife and receptionist, Soo, also was charged with money laundering, conspiracy and tax–related counts. 

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CMS foresees a world where nine out of 10 small practices will participate in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization (MACRA) program, which determines how Medicare physicians are reimbursed. 

For those small practices thinking they can escape the program, CMS isn't buying it. "As we build the program, our goal is to achieve a 90 percent participation rate by all clinicians. That includes small practices as well," Jean Moody-Williams, deputy director of the center for clinical standards and quality at CMS said at this year's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference, held in Orlando. Moody-Williams presented in a session on how small, rural, and underserved practices can adhere to the quality payment program.

Those numbers didn't come out of thin air. 

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