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Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Course: Waiver Qualifying
July 26, 2017!
Learners will be able to:
- Apply for a wavier to prescribe buprenorphine to their patients with opioid use disorders
- Identify and assess patients who are appropriate for treatment with medications
- Have specific knowledge concerning the use of medications to manage patients with addiction involving opioid use
- Discuss the psychiatric and medical co-morbidities associated with opioid addiction
This course is SAMHSA-supported and meets the requirements needed to obtain the waiver to prescribe buprenorphine in office-based treatment of opioid use disorders.
This is an 8-hour blended course combining 4 hours of online learning followed by 4 hours of live learning. The live portion of the course builds off the content delivered in the online portion. Course faculty are expecting you to come to the live course with the online portion completed.This is an 8-hour blended course combining 4 hours of online learning followed by 4 hours of live learning. The live portion of the course builds off the content delivered in the online portion. Course faculty are expecting you to come to the live course with the online portion completed.
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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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Buprenorphine and Naltrexone Underprescribed for Youth With Opioid Use Disorder
Early pharmacologic intervention for opioid use disorder (OUD) after diagnosis is crucial to prevent relapse and overdose in adolescents and young adults, yet this population often remains undertreated, according to a retrospective cohort study recently published in
JAMA Pediatrics.1 The study identified time trends and sociodemographic characteristics affecting receipt of buprenorphine and naltrexone among commercially insured American youth (ages 13-25 years) who received an OUD diagnosis between 2001 and 2014.
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Cruz's ObamaCare fix gets support from Hill conservatives
A low-flying proposal from Sen. Ted Cruz to overhaul a major component of ObamaCare is attracting the kind of conservative enthusiasm that could prove critical in the broader GOP push to repeal and replace the 2010 law.
The Texas Republican senator has offered up his idea as an amendment that would allow insurers to offer bare-boned policies that don't meet Affordable Care Act standards -- provided they also offer plans in compliance
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Chronic Wounds Heal Faster in Opioid-Naive Patients
The rate of chronic wound healing is inversely related to opioid use, according to an online study.
“Opioid dose was significantly associated with total wound surface area,” said study author Victoria Shanmugam, MD, associate professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, in Washington, D.C. The study was published in Wound Repair and Regeneration (2016 Nov 16. [Epub ahead of print]).
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Shooting at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital: 9 things to know
A physician opened fire in a crowded Bronx-Lebanon Hospital in New York City Friday afternoon, killing one and wounding six others at his former workplace before setting himself on fire and shooting himself in the head.
Here are nine things to know about the shooting, victims, gunman and the hospital's response.
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Trump Nominates Dr. Jerome Adams for SurgeonGeneral: 6 highlights
Jerome Adams, MD, is President Donald Trump's nominee for surgeon general, according to Medscape.
Here are six highlights:
1. As surgeon general, Dr. Adams would head the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
2. Mr. Trump dismissed former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, in April. Sylvia Trent-Adams, RN, PhD, stepped up as the temporary replacement.
3. Dr. Adams is currently the state health commissioner of Indiana. Vice President Mike Pence appointed Dr. Adams to this position in October 2014.
4. Dr. Adams is also a clinical anesthesia assistant professor at Indianapolis-based Indiana University School of Medicine. He is also a staff anesthesiologist at Indianapolis-based Eskenazi Health.
5. He previously served on the Indiana State Medical Association board and the Indiana Society of Anesthesiologists board.
6. Dr. Adams earned his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine and his master of public health degree from University of California, Berkeley.
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Yoga instead of pain pills? Experts reach for ways to stem tide of opioid addiction
Forsyth County’s health care systems have launched multiyear plans aimed at curtailing the local opioid addiction crisis through prevention and more appropriately prescribing painkillers.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cites prescription opioid abuse as driving the increase in opioid overdoses, which kill 91 Americans every day. Opioids include OxyContin and morphine.
State health officials disclosed May 18 that North Carolina has had a 73 percent jump in opioid-related deaths from 2005 to 2015. There were more than 13,000 opioid-overdose deaths in the state during the 10-year period.
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Editorial: Societal attitude toward pain relief must be part of solution to opioid epidemic
Preliminary data compiled by The New York Times suggests that drug overdose deaths in 2016 most likely will top 59,000, the largest annual jump in overdose deaths ever recorded in this nation. Although gun deaths and motor vehicle deaths tend to grab the lion’s share of headlines, drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death among Americans under the age of 50.
That death count is the manifestation of opioid addiction, an escalating public health crisis that has become epidemic in proportions. The death toll from the current epidemic has been made more deadly by an influx of illicitly manufactured fentanyl and similar drugs.
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A SPECIAL RATE FOR ASIPP MEMBERS TO THE NAPA PAIN CONFERENCE:
The Napa Pain Conference, slated for August 17-20 of this year, brings world-class speakers to the stage for every session, and offers unparalleled learning and networking opportunities to its hundreds of attendees - the finest clinicians, researchers, and industry innovators in pain and neuroscience.
Learn more at napapainconference.com, and click the link below to register today. Early registration rates have been extended for members of ASIPP through June 30, 2017. Use code ASIPPEarly to receive the discount for registration to the full conference, and to our pre-conference workshop sessions on Intraspinal Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine.
Discounted lodging rates are first-come, first-serve. Book your room today - the Meritage Resort sold out in 2015 and 2016!
Earn up to 24.75
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ at California's Premiere Pain Conference. Content is applicable to practitioners of all levels, in all settings.
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Effect of Legalization of Medical Marijuana on Illicit Use
HealthDay News — Illicit cannabis use increased significantly more in states that passed medical marijuana laws than in other states, according to a study published in JAMA Psychiatry.1
Deborah S. Hasin, PhD, of Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, and colleagues analyzed data from 118,497 adults gathered in 3 national surveys in 1991-1992, 2001-2002, and 2012-2013. In 1991, no Americans lived in states with medical marijuana laws, but by 2012, more than one-third lived in states that had accepted medical marijuana.
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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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The NIPM-QCDR, a new offering from ASIPP®, is specifically tailored for interventional pain physicians. Your practice can use the NIPM-QCDR to fulfill the 2017 requirements of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).
- Meet CMS MIPS mandates for Quality and Improvement Activities
- Receive credit toward Advancing Care Information
- Report on specialty-specific measures developed by ASIPP
- Understand and adjust your 2017 performance to optimize future CMS reimbursement with real-time reports available on-demand
- Be better prepared for CMS quality reporting in future years when penalties and incentives get even larger
- Improve the quality of patient care in the specialty of interventional pain managementLearn more and get started with 2017 reporting by visiting ArborMetrix.com/NIPM-QCDR.
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