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ASIPP Room Block Closed, But Rooms Still Available
ASIPP is proud to announce that
Mayor Rudolph "Rudy" Giuliani will be addressing the attendees of the 2017 ASIPP Annual Meeting to be held April 20- 22, 2017 in Las Vegas. Mayor Giuliani will be one of our keynote speakers on Saturday, April 22, 2017 at Caesar's Palace in Vegas.
Other prestigious guest speakers lined up for this year's meeting include:
- Congressman Ed Whitfield: ASIPP is Moving Forward, Long-time friend of ASIPP and recently retired Congressman for Kentucky
- Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP - Keynote Speaker: Delivering Humanistic Care in the Era of High Tech and Lean Resources Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA Abraham Verghese is a physician-author, Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University Medical School and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine.
- Robert Wachter, MD: The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA Dr. Robert Wachter is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He was named one of the 50 most influential physicians in the U.S. for each of the past 7 years.
- Robert Laszewski: US Health Care: Present Status and Future Directions for Independent Physician President, Health Policy and Strategy Associates, LLC. Robert Laszewski is a frequent speaker at ASIPP events. He is the president of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, Inc. (HPSA), a policy and marketplace consulting firm dealing with health policy and market change.
- Richard North, MD: Evolving Concepts of Neuromoducation: Past, Present and Future President, the Neuromodulation Foundation, Inc. Dr. Richard North has directed the Neurosurgery Spine Service for 16 years at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has received The American Academy of Pain Medicine's Founder's Award, and the North American Neuromodulation Society's Lifetime Achievement Award in the field of implanted electrical stimulation devices.
- Philippe Hernigou, MD - Keynote Speaker: Innovations in Stem Cell Therapy for Musculoskeletal Injuries Chief of Surgery & Professor of Hospital Henri Mondor, University, Paris. Dr. Hernigou served as a Member of the Board of Scientific Advisors of Stemedica Cell Technologies, Inc. He has used autologous bone marrow concentrate (BMC) to treat orthopedic pathologies since 1990.
- Laxmaiah Manchikanti: Evolution or Innovation: Current Perspectives and Future Strategies, Chairman of the Board and CEO, ASIPP
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
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Save The Date!
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 (more details will be available next week)
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Written and Oral Exams will be held on Saturday, June 17. Hand-on lab exam will be Sunday 18th
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Republicans try to revive health-care effort as leaders seek to temper expectations
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Republicans led by Vice President Pence pushed to revive a moribund health-care bill on Tuesday, meeting late into the night with key lawmakers eager to build new GOP consensus to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Pence spent much of Tuesday on Capitol Hill meeting with key groups of lawmakers, as well as with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), a day after visiting separately with conservative hard-
liners and moderates to gauge the potential for a revamped version of legislation that collapsed last month.
The crux of the new proposal would be to allow states to seek exemptions from certain mandates established under the Affordable Care Act — including a requirement that insurers cover 10 “essential health benefits” as well as a prohibition on charging those with preexisting medical conditions more than the healthy.
Washington Post
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Finally, an Online Journal for Interventional Pain Management Case Reports, as well as Brief Reports and Reviews
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Inaugural Issue Online Now!
Inside this inuaugural issue of Interventional Pain Management Reports (IPM Reports) , we are featuring an impressive amount of case reports on Epidural Hematoma. These and much more informative manuscripts are found in the March 2017 issue of IPM Reports.
This issue includes:
- Five Epidural Hematoma-Related Articles
- Subcutaneous Botulinum Toxin Injections for Post-Craniotomy Scars
- Perioperative Ketamine Infusion for Reversing Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia
- Platelet Rich Plasma in the Treatment Algorithm of Knee Osteoarthritis
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March/April Issue of Pain Physician available
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This month in Pain Physician journal, we are featuring two articles on Health Care in the United States - it's evolution and how the repeal and replace should be handled. These and much more informative manuscripts are found in the March/April issue of Pain Physician. In this issue, you can read about:
Click below to view full article pdfs available only online at: www.painphysicianjournal.com
Evolution of US Health Care Reform
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, Standiford Helm II, MD, Ramsin M. Benyamin, MD, and Joshua A. Hirsch, MD Pain Physician 2017; 20:107-110
A Critical Analysis of Obamacare: Affordable Care or Insurance for Many and Coverage for Few? Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, Standiford Helm II, MD, Ramsin M. Benyamin, MD, and Joshua A. Hirsch, MD Pain Physician 2017; 20:111-138
CLICK HERE TO ACDESS ENTIRE MARCH/APRIL ISSUE
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Methadone Accounted for 23% of Opioid OD Deaths in 2014
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CDC report: Higher use of the prescription drug found among Medicaid population
Methadone-related overdoses accounted for nearly one in four deaths related to prescription opioids in 2014, despite a recent decline in drug overdose deaths involving methadone, said researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Overall, the rate of methadone-overdose deaths increased 600% from 1999 to 2006 (from 0.3 persons per 100,000 to 1.8 per 100,000) before declining to 1.1 per 100,000 in 2014, reported Mark Faul, PhD, and colleagues. While the drug accounted for only 1% of all opioid prescriptions, methadone-related deaths were responsible for 22.9% of opioid-related deaths in 2014, the authors wrote in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,
MedPage Today
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Is Anthem Exiting the Obamacare Exchanges? The Trump Administration Needs to Decide if They Are In or Out Bloomberg is out with a report that Anthem may exit most of their Obamacare exchange markets next year:
Anthem, Inc. is likely to pull back from Obamacare’s individual insurance markets in a big way for next year, according to a report from analysts who said they met with the company, a move that could limit coverage options for consumers at a politically crucial time for the law. Anthem “is leaning toward exiting a high percentage of the 144 rating regions in which it currently participates,” Jefferies analysts David Windley and David Styblo said Thursday in a research note. An exit by Anthem might be devastating to insurance markets created by the Affordable Care Act, which is often called Obamacare.
The company, which sells coverage under the Blue Cross and Blue Shield brand in 14 states, is one of the few big insurers that has stuck with the ACA. UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Aetna Inc. have already exited most states, and Humana Inc. is planning to stop offering individual ACA plans entirely for 2018.
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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
FSIPP Meeting
August 27 - 30, 2017
The Florida Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (FSIPP) has set the dates for its 2017 meeting
Dates are April 27-30, 2107
The meeting will be held in Orlando, FL at the Orlando World Center Marriott
Click Here for more information and to make reservation
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