THURSDAY
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FEBRUARY 20, 2020
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Annual Meeting Keynote Dr. Kevin Pho's Lecture Will Cover Establishing, Managing, And Protecting Your Online Reputation
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Founded in 2004 by
Kevin Pho, MD
,
KevinMD
is the web’s leading platform where physicians, advanced practitioners, nurses, medical students, and patients
share their insight and tell their storie
s
.
Dr. Pho
is a practicing, board-certified internal medicine physician, a national media commentator, co-author of the book,
Establishing, Managing, and Protecting Your Online Reputation: A Social Media Guide for Physicians and Medical Practices
, and an acclaimed keynote speaker.
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Utilizing Patient Feedback
And Reviews
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We live in a review-based society. You ask a friend for restaurant recommendations, you check star ratings before you make that Amazon purchase, and you go deep on user reviews before you book a hotel or vacation rental. Healthcare often goes a step further with more and more health systems and insurers switching to value-based care to determine reimbursements.
For physicians in private practice utilizing reviews and making positive changes based on feedback is a great way to keep insurance reimbursements high, your business moving in a positive direction, and make your patients happy.
Why feedback is important
I have written
before
about how listening to your staff can help keep your employees engaged and happy. The same goes for your patients. When a patient feels you are really listening, both in clinical settings and in online reviews, feedback forms, and surveys, you will start to build trust. They are coming to you with the most important thing in their lives, either their own health or the health of their loved ones. Trust is integral to building a solid physician/patient relationship and listening and acting on feedback is a great way to build that trust.
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HYATT REGENCY DALLAS NEXT TO REUNION TOWER
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ASIPP
®
Annual Meeting 2020
At Hyatt Regency Dallas
Is Going To Be BIG!
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Everything in Texas is
BIG
. Including the
ASIPP® Annual Meeting 2020
. Held at the
Hyatt Regency Dallas
, April 2-4, 2020.
ASIPP®
is collaborating with the
Texas Pain Society
. The Annual Meeting is tailored to physicians, mid-level providers, and staff. There will be two
Distinguished Lecture Series
and
ten keynotes
. There are more than
45 distinguished speakers
scheduled with many being physician speakers. Over
1,000 attendees
are projected to attend. There will be around
100 exhibitors
. The
Hyatt
makes for a world class venue. And new this year, a
Career Fair
.
This is
BIG
!
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ABIPP Recognizes Your Knowledge and Expertise
The
American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians
(
ABIPP
)
has developed certification programs that recognize accepted levels of knowledge and expertise in the interventional pain management profession, with the goal of improved patient care. Hundreds of qualified physicians have made the commitment to become
ABIPP
certified.
ABIPP
now offers the only competency
certification program for regenerative medicine.
For complete information about the examination requirements and to obtain an application packet, visit
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JUNE 27
ABIPP Part I
- Combined CSM/CCPM Exam for ABIPP Path
- Competency Exam in Controlled Substance Management
- Competency Exam in Coding, Compliance, and Practice Management
JUNE 27-28
ABIPP Part II
- ABIPP Competency Exam
- Regenerative Medicine Competency Exam
- Endoscopic Lumbar Decompression Competency Exam
939 Ridge Lake Blvd.,
Memphis, Tennessee 38120
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JUNE 2020 ABIPP EXAMS AND COMPETENCY EXAMS
June 27 - June 28, 2020 | Hilton Memphis
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Announcing A New ASIPP Partnership - Fedora Billing
And Revenue Cycle Management Company
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After long discussions, in addition to our NorCal liability program for
ASIPP
®
members, now we are able to offer unique benefits for revenue cycle management with billing, etc.
Fedora (
https://www.ifedora.com
) is a company known to many of our board members and others.
ASIPP
®
has reached an agreement with Fedora to provide exclusive discounts on billing or revenue cycle management that will decrease practice costs and promote growth, or at least stop deterioration. It is not just a billing company; they streamline the billing and receivable process and constantly update payor regulations keeping your practice up to on date on a daily basis.
Some of the
ASIPP
®
Billing Program highlights are below:
Up to 50% savings for
ASIPP
®
members for their billing or revenue cycle management for their offices and surgery centers:
- Expertise in interventional pain management billing for all types of services
- 99% Clearing House Rate
- 95% First-Time Claim Passage
- 23.4 Average Days in A/R
- Eligibility and Benefits Verification
- Pre-Certification/Prior Authorization
- Denials and A/R Management
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Obtain A Waiver To
Prescribe Buprenorphine
ASAM TREATMENT OF OPIOID USE DISORDER - BUPRENORPHINE PRESCRIPTION WAIVER COURSE
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Course Includes 4 hours of online material at the conclusion of the course to provide the required 8 hours needed to obtain the waiver to prescribe buprenorphine in office-based treatment of opioid use disorders.
A $200 registration fee is in addition to the meeting registration fee.
ASAM course registrants must be registered attendees for the
ASIPP
®
2020 Annual Meeting in Dallas. Onsite registration will be available as space allows or you may register in advance on your meeting registration form.
This course will only be offered Friday, April 3 and is open to Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists, and Physician Assistants who wish to obtain a waiver to prescribe buprenorphine in office-based treatment of opioid use disorder.
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Join The Group Purchasing Organization Today
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ASIPP
®
has formed a partnership with
Henry Schein
and
PedsPal
, a national GPO that has a successful history of negotiating better prices on medical supplies and creating value added services for the independent physician. Working with MedAssets, PedsPal provides excellent pricing on products like contrast media that alleviate some of the financial pressures you experience today. While the cost of contrast media has skyrocketed due to the single dose vial issue, because we have partnered with Henry Schein, this could enable you to purchase Omnipaque 240mg/50mL for slightly above $4.50.
It will be easy for
ASIPP
®
members in good standing to enroll today and begin to realize the savings this partnership can bring. Members can join or see sample prices by going to
http://pedspal.org/asipp/default.html
Click on “view our discounted supplier prices” (Username:ASIPPmember and Password: Save) or click on the words "join for free now" and begin saving today!
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No More Numerical Scores For USMLE Step 1 Exam
New pass/fail policy aims to reduce overemphasis
on test performance
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Scores for Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) will be reported as pass/fail, not as numeric scores, the two organizations that sponsor the test
announced
Wednesday.
The change, which will
happen no sooner than January 2022
, aims to reduce overemphasis on Step 1 performance while allowing licensing authorities to continue to use the test to determine medical license eligibility, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) said.
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Why Biometrics Are The
Future Of Patient Care
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Most consumers are accustomed to using their fingerprint to unlock their phones. That’s just one of the uses for biometric technology, which includes: fingerprint, iris, and facial recognition, as well as palm-vein readers, to reduce the authorization fraud and security breaches common with passwords.
Government, financial, travel/logistics and consumer electronic industries have all increased their use of biometric technology in recent years and use in the healthcare industry also continues to grow.
Estimates are that the healthcare biometrics market will be worth $14.5 billion by 2025, due to the increase in healthcare information exchanges and the demand for technology that decreases data corruption and fraud, according to an analysis by Grand View Research. That represents a growth of 23% from 2017, and Grand View predicts the growth of consumerism in healthcare will push many organizations to consider biometrics as it becomes the standard in other industries.
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Essentials Of Regenerative Medicine In Interventional
Pain Management
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Essentials of Regenerative Medicine in Interventional Pain Management is a book to bring concise, collective, and comprehensive information to interventional pain physicians practicing regenerative medicine in managing chronic pain. Regenerative medicine is an integral part of interventional pain management within the definitions of interventional pain management and interventional techniques.
Each chapter contains an introduction of the subject, historical context,pathophysiology, applicability of regenerative medicine with its evidence base, indications, anatomy, technical aspects, complications, and precautions for each topic when available and applicable. This comprehensive book consists of 35 chapters, more than 350 figures, and 50 tables.
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Essentials of Regenerative Medicine in Interventional Pain Management
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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
DEADLINE EXTENDED ONE WEEK!
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Submit Your Abstract Now To The ASIPP
®
Annual Meeting 2020 Abstract/Poster Presentation
Deadline Extended to
February 24, 2020
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Pain Physician January/February
2020 Articles Available Online Now
The January/February issue of Pain Physician features two surveys: one on prescription drugs in the workplace, and another on patient-reported outcome demographics. The issue also features randomized trials on pulsed radiofrequency on thoracic dorsal root ganglion, and the effects of intraoperative, low-dose ketamine on postsurgical pain after breast cancer.
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Analysis/Survey
Prescription Drugs and the US Workforce: Results from a National Safety Council Survey
Alaa Abd-Elsayed, MD, Mathew Fischer, MD, Jonathan Dimbert, MS, and Kenneth James Fiala,BS
Demographic Factors Associated with Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Pain Management
Jihad Abdelgadir, MD, Edmund W Ong, PhD, Salma M Abdalla, MD, John C Hunting, MPH, Mohamed Mustafa Diab, MD, Michael M Haglund, MD, PhD, C Rory Goodwin, MD, PhD, and Padma Gulur, MD
Randomized Trials
Pulsed Radiofrequency on Thoracic Dorsal Root Ganglion versus Thoracic Paravertebral Nerve for Chronic Postmastectomy Pain, A Randomized Trial: 6-Month Results
Diab Fuad Hetta, MD, Sahar Abdel Baky Mohamed, MD, Kawser Hofny Mohamed, MD, Taha Abd Elrazek Mahmoud, MD, and Hanan Ahmed Eltyb, MD
Effects of Intraoperative Low-Dose Ketamine on Persistent Postsurgical Pain after Breast Cancer Surgery: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled, Double-Blind Study
Christine Kang MD, Ah-Reum Cho MD, PhD, Kyung-Hoon Kim MD, PhD, Eun-A Lee MD, Hyeon-Jeong Lee MD, PhD , Jae-Young Kwon MD, PhD, Haekyu Kim MD,
PhD, Eunsoo Kim MD, PhD, Ji-Seok Baik MD, PhD, and Choongrak Kim MD, PhD
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Control Your Waiting Room TV
Customized waiting room TV exclusively for
ASIPP
®
members. Create your own ad-free television broadcasts using our videos, custom informational slides and your own YouTube videos. Even add local weather reports, news and live messages.
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GSIPP 16th Annual Pain Summit
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The Ritz-Carlton Reynolds Plantation
Lake Oconee
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CALSIPP 11th Annual Conference
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2020 12th Annual Scientific
Meeting
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