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Board Certification Testing Available in June in Orlando, FL
Make plans now to take one of the following exams during the June 16 – 18th course in Orlando, FL.
We will be offering the following exams
and
Written and Oral Exams will be held on Saturday, June 17. Hand-on lab exam will be Sunday 18th
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2017 ASIPP Washington Legislative trip Set for Sept 12-13, 2017
At no other time in the history of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians has it been more important for you, as members, to get involved in our advocacy efforts. Our specialty has been gravely affected by drastic and severe coverage cuts. These cuts so radical, they have hurt more than just our bottom lines; some practices and surgery centers have been forced to close their doors.
The election of President Trump and his appointment of Representative Tom Price as Health and Human Services Secretary and Seema Verma to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have given us some hope and an opportunity to achieve some of our goals, and possibly reverse these cuts retroactively and reinstate the previous reimbursement or even improve reimbursement for 2018.
Now is our chance! Let your voices be heard!
We have scheduled a legislative conference September 12 and 13. To participate in this conference, you must to be in Washington on Tuesday, September 12 in order to attend the preparation session. Wednesday, September 13, we will head to Capitol Hill to hear speeches and meet with Senators and Representatives. Some appointments may continue through Thursday. If you would like to leave on Wednesday, please do not plan on leaving before 6 pm.
Each member is expected to visit two senators and one member of Congress for a total of three visits.
ASIPP will be booking a block of rooms for those who choose to attend. You will be responsible for travel expenses.
Please let us know as soon as possible if you will be attending so that we can begin making the appointments. Contact Kasi Stunson kstunson@asipp.org.
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Here's who gets the blame if Obamacare fails (Hint: It's not Obama)
These days the debate is not about whether Obamacare's individual health insurance market is failing, it's about whose fault it is.
With a growing list of health plans pulling out of the Obamacare insurance exchanges or announcing big rate increases, it is clear that the individual health insurance market is not sustainable in its present form.
So, the terms of the debate have shifted. Where before supporters and opponents debated whether or not the law was working, now the debate is over whose fault it is that it is failing.
CNBC
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What to watch for in new healthcare score
The Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday is slated to release its analysis of the GOP bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare — the very analysis that House Republicans declined to wait for when pushing the bill through their chamber in early May.
The score from the nonpartisan scorekeeper could shake up the healthcare debate, particularly if the late changes made by House Republicans have significantly altered the projections.
Senators are working to rewrite the healthcare bill to address some of the issues raised by the CBO in March and will be looking to the new analysis to guide them on the path forward.
The Hill
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New Tips Available for Physicians Planning for Retirement
HealthDay News -- According to an article published in Medical Economics, physicians should consider their retirement and plan ahead at all stages of their career. The article presents retirement tips for physicians at each stage of their career, offering practical suggestions for physicians post-training, mid-career, and getting close to retirement.
Crafting a debt management plan that includes loan repayment with building retirement savings is crucial for doctors starting their career path. In order to retire with about the same income in retirement as in working years, a physician starting to save at age 30 needs to set aside 21% of their income, leaving a little room for a down payment on a home.
Medical Bag
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Medical Resident Pleads Guilty to Fraudulently Obtaining Prescription Opioid Pain Medications
St. Louis, MO – Kyle Betts pled guilty today to fraudulently obtaining pain relief drugs, including Percocet® and Norco®, by writing over seventy false prescriptions.
According to the plea agreement, during November 2014 through February 2016, Betts was a medical resident associated with a medical school that was located in the City of St. Louis, Missouri. Betts wrote the opioid prescriptions using the names of six separate persons, although he did not have a physician- patient relationship with any of them. Betts used the names of his family members for some of the prescriptions, and the names of persons with whom he had romantic relationships for other prescriptions. For some of these prescriptions, Betts went to the pharmacy and personally presented prescriptions for drugs using other peoples’ names. The Medicare and Illinois Medicaid programs funded some of the drugs obtained under these false prescriptions.
Betts pled guilty to one felony count of obtaining prescription drugs that contained controlled substances through misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception, and subterfuge before United States District Judge Catherine Perry. Sentencing has been set for August 17, 2017.
USDOJ
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Farmington Hills Doctor Sentenced to 19 Years in Prison for Distributing Prescription Drugs and Health Care Fraud
A Farmington Hills, Michigan, doctor was sentenced yesterday to 19 years in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute prescription pills and conspiracy to commit health care fraud, Acting U.S. Attorney Daniel Lemisch announced.
Adelfo Pamatmat, 71, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert H. Cleland. Dr. Pamatmat was found guilty, along with two co-defendants, after a seven-week jury trial. Dr. Pamatmat was convicted on two felony counts, conspiracy to illegally distribute prescription drugs and conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
The convictions arose from the operation of a fraudulent medical practice known as Compassionate Doctors. The medical practice purported to be a visiting physician’s practice, but was actually a scheme that involved patient marketers bringing paid “patients” to residences to obtain fraudulent prescriptions for controlled substances. Medicare would be billed for medical examinations and tests that were not conducted properly or were not conducted at all. The marketers would fill the controlled substance prescriptions at cooperating pharmacies and sell the drugs on the street market.
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Study: Orthopedic Surgery Patients Given Too Many Opioids
PITTSBURGH -- Most patients going home with opioid painkillers after orthopedic surgery at Johns Hopkins University didn't use all the pills they were given, suggesting that these medications are routinely overprescribed, a researcher said here.
Among 93 patients interviewed during the succeeding 4 weeks after discharge, 85% of those who had stopped taking the drugs still had them in the cabinet, said Mark Bicket, MD, of Hopkins' division of pain medicine in Baltimore.
And many of the patients had large numbers of tablets remaining: 28% had 20 or more pills still in their possession, and 24% retained doses at least 200 morphine-equivalent.
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Repeat MRI May Not Benefit Patients With Chronic Spine Pain
Repeated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for chronic spine pain does not impact occurrence of surgical treatment or interval changes, according to research presented at the American Pain Society's 36th
Annual Scientific Meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.1
The researchers from Wellspan Interventional Pain Center, York, Pennsylvania, sought to determine whether obtaining multiple
MRIs in patients with
chronic pain in the neck or lower back presented advantages, as this practice results in increased costs and may be harmful to patients. The study was prompted by the observation that the rate of lumbar MRI had greatly increased in recent years and was not associated with improved patient outcomes.2
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PAs Taking the Modern Medical Practice by Storm
Every year the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) releases data on the physician assistant (PA) profession.
This year's data reveals the profession is growing by leaps and bounds. In 2010, there were just over 80,000 certified PAs nationwide. In 2016, the number has grown to just over 115,500 certified PAs.
If the NCCPA's data is any indication, many of these PAs are young women. In fact, the NCCPA found that 28 percent of certified PAs are women aged 30-39, and 14.2 percent are young women aged 20-29. Dawn Morton-Rias, PA-C, told the
Physicians Practice Pearls podcast being a PA provides young women a certain flexibility that being a physician cannot.
Physicians Practice
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Interventional Pain Management Reports is an Open Access online journal, a peer-reviews journal dedicated to the publication of case reports, brief commentaries and reviews and letters to the editor. It is a peer-reviewed journal written by and directed to an audience of interventional pain physicians, clinicians and basic scientists with an interest in interventional pain management and pain medicine.
We would like to invite you to submit research case reports, brief commentaries and reviews to
Interventional Pain Management Reports
Journal. Your article will be published
‘FREE’ of charge.
Led by Editor in Chief: Kenneth Candido, MD, Chairman and Professor, Department of Anesthesiology , Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, IPM Reports focuses on the promotion of excellence in the practice of interventional pain management and clinical research.
Interventional Pain Management Reports is an official publication of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP) and is a sister publication of
Pain Physician.
Interventional Pain Management Reports
Interventional Pain Management Reports is an open access journal, available online with free full manuscripts.
The benefits of publishing in an open access journal that has a corresponding print edition journal are:
- Your article will have the potential to obtain more citations.
- Your article will be peer-reviewed and published faster than other journals.
- Your article can be read by a potentially much larger audience compared with traditional subscription-only journals.
- Open Access journals are FREE to view, download and to print.
So submit today your:
Case Reports
Technical Reports
Editorials
Short Perspectives
Click
HERE to read the Instructions for Authors for article submission
Click
HERE to submit a manuscript
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OHSIPP Meeting
August 25-27, 2017
The Ohio Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (OHSIPP) has set the dates for its 2017 meeting.
Dates are Friday Aug 25 thru Sunday Aug 27, 2017.
The meeting will be held in Cincinnati at the Westin Hotel, 21 E 5th St , at Fountain Square .
Contact Michelle Byers for more information MichelleHByers@gmail.com
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