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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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A WIN: Administration’s MACRA Moves To Give Physicians More Flexibility
Late yesterday, CMS released a proposed rule for the 2018 Quality Payment Program. The proposal contains a number of provisions that address concerns raised by ASIPP and other physician groups and that will help minimize the number of physicians who face penalties under the program.
Links to the proposed rule and a lengthy fact sheet follow.
This is a win for ASIPP and the hard work our staff and members have put in to put the pressure on CMS to make changes that will not only help IPM physicians, all physicians.
Along with this success, ASIPP has received approval of the National Interventional Pain Management - Qualified Clinical Data Registry (NIPM-QCDR) by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for the 2017 reporting year. NIPM-QCDR will assist interventional pain physicians fulfill requirements of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) under the CMS Quality Payment Program (QPP).
The CMS-approved NIPM-QCDR will capture and analyze data that are clinically relevant and appropriate for interventional pain physicians. Physicians who participate in NIPM-QCDR will be able to understand and adjust their 2017 performance to improve patient outcomes and optimize future reimbursements under the CMS QPP. They will also be better prepared for CMS quality reporting in future years when penalties and incentives get even larger.
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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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In just one year, nearly 1.3 million Americans needed hospital care for opioid-related issues
The coast-to-coast opioid epidemic is swamping hospitals, with
government data published Tuesday showing 1.27 million emergency room visits or inpatient stays for opioid-related issues in a single year.
The 2014 numbers, the latest available for every state and the District of Columbia, reflect a 64 percent increase for inpatient care and a 99 percent jump for emergency room treatment compared to figures from 2005. Their trajectory likely will keep climbing if the epidemic continues unabated.
Wall Street journal
Access to this article may be limited.
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One Almost-Certain Risk for Investors in the Health-Care Bill
As investors struggle to understand the overhaul of the Affordable Care Act, one area to watch is insurance deductibles, which are likely to rise and could increase pressure on the health-care industry to control costs.
Senate Republicans are set to unveil their proposed legislation later this week, with a possible vote before July 4. Investors will handicap the bill’s chances of becoming law and compare the impact on the industry from the Senate versus the House plan.
Other big things to watch are: proposed reductions in Medicaid spending, provisions to allow states to opt out of coverage requirements by insurers and the impact of the bill on insurance premiums. These will all affect how much health care people will be able to get, which in turn affects the earnings power of the industry.
Access to this article may be limited.
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CMS Made a Map. Then Things Got Interesting
Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a pretty compelling map showing the number of insurers that are projected to participate in health exchanges in each county next year. Pretty compelling stuff.
My editor thought it would be a good idea to get the data behind the map. After all, it shows that 47 counties in Missouri, Washington, and Ohio will have no providers, and the number of counties with just one option will again increase. I expected to get a spreadsheet listing each county and the number of providers, something we could analyze and compare to other information CMS provides.
Map: https://downloads.cms.gov/files/cciio-exchange-carriers-by-county.pdf
MedPage Today
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Iowa Physicians Protected by New Bill With Tort Reforms
HealthDay News -- According to a report published by the American Medical Association (AMA), a new bill with tort reforms to protect Iowa physicians will take effect on July 1st.
The bill, signed by Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, includes limiting noneconomic damages that compensate for intangibles such as pain and suffering to $250,000 in most cases, and establishes stronger standards for expert witnesses, requiring them to be licensed and in good standing in the same or similar field as the defendant.
In addition, plaintiffs will need an expert witness to certify that the standard of care was breached, and how it was breached; this must occur within 60 days of the defendant's response to the initial notice that a lawsuit was filed and before the start of discovery.
HealthDay News
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Discrepancies in Subjective vs Objective Sleep in Patients Receiving Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder
Patients receiving buprenorphine maintenance therapy for their opioid use disorder may have impaired sleep, although they report improvements in both quality and duration of sleep, according to a study presented at SLEEP 2017, the 31st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, held in Boston, Massachusetts.1
Increasing literature indicates a high prevalence of sleep abnormalities among individuals with substance use disorder (including cocaine, opioid, and cannabis overuse), with a bidirectional relationship between these 2 modalities.2,3Conversely, long-term abstinence after cocaine dependence was shown to be associated with improved
sleep quality after an initial worsening period.4
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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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