THURSDAY | OCTOBER 1, 2020
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Discussions, Comments, Presentations on CAC Facet Joint Interventions - All ASIPP Members and CAC Representatives
Tonight, October 1, 2020 – 5:30 pm CST
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We have scheduled aZoom webinar to discuss CAC issues and also comment letters. This is an extremely important meeting and the only time you are able to do this. There is no other avenues to discuss these issues.
Strength is necessary to prove that we are all interested. This meeting is not just for CAC members - it is for all interventional pain management physicians and other interventional pain management physicians.
All ASIPP, CAC members from each state, and state society board members are invited to discuss various issues impending in reference to CAC on facet joint interventions and comment letters to CMS on proposed fee schedules for 2021.
If you want more information or just want to be more informed about issues that affect you, your staff, and patients, this meeting is the best place to begin.
The meeting will be presented by multiple board members experienced with CACs and writing comment letters to CMS: Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD; Harold Cordner, MD; Amol Soin, MD; Sunny Jha, MD; Sudhir Diwan, MD; Deborah Tracy, MD; Joshua Hirsch, MD; Thomas Simopoulos, MD; Chris Gharibo, MD; Hans Hansen, MD; and
Stan Helm, MD
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar:
There is no registration fee; however, attendance is limited due to the limited capacity of the platform.
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Reported NSAID Allergy Increases Risk for OUD in Chronic Back Pain |
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Adults with chronic back pain who reported adverse reactions from non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may be at higher risk for developing opioid use disorder. These results, from a retrospective cohort study, were published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
Among all patients, 7.7% reported an allergic reaction to NSAID therapy.
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Upcoming Courses - Order Below |
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Dual Energy CT: What Can It Do for Interventional Spine Service - Rajiv Gupta, MD
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Clinical & Technical Considerations of Plain X-rays and Myelography of Lumbar Spine - Art Watanabe, MD
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Clinical and Technical Considerations and Classifications of CT and MRI - Sheri Albers, DO
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Diagnosis of Disc Degeneration - Sheri Albers, DO
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Diagnosis and Nomenclature of Disc Bulging, Protrusion, Herniation, and Extrusion - Sheri Albers, DO
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Diagnosis of Miscellaneous Lumber Conditions - Sheri Albers, DO
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Fluoroscopy and Needle Placement - Kent Remley, MD
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Diagnosis of Spinal Stenosis - Kent Remley, MD
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Future Directions in X-Ray Imaging - Rajiv Gupta, MD
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Review of Images - Sheri Albers, DO; Rajiv Gupta, MD; Kent Remley, MD; Art Watanabe, MD
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Introduction to Imaging for Cervical and Thoracic Spine - Kent Remley, MD
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Clinical and Technical Considerations: Plain X-rays and Myelography of Cervical and Thoracic Spine - Kent Remley, MD
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Clinical & Technical Considerations of CT and MRI in Cervical and Thoracic Spine - Art Watanabe, MD
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Diagnosis of Cervical and Thoracic Spinal Disorders (Disc, Stenosis, Etc.) - Kent Remley, MD
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Fluoroscopy for Needle Placement in the Cervical and Thoracic Spine - Sheri Albers, DO
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Appropriate Criteria for Advanced Imaging of Spine: An Algorithmic Approach - Rajiv Gupta, MD
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Head, Neck, Chest, and Abdominal Imaging - Sheri Albers, DO
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Head and Neck Fluoroscopy and Needle Placement – Miles Day, MD
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Thoracic, Chest, and Abdomen Fluoroscopy and Needle Placement - Miles Day, MD
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Imaging for Upper and Lower Extremities - Sheri Albers, DO
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Fluoroscopy and needle Placement for Upper and Lower Extremities - Sheri Albers, DO
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Review of Images - Sheri Albers, DO; Rajiv Gupta, MD; Kent Remley, MD; Miles Day, MD
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Course Title:
Comprehensive Review Course Documentation,
Coding, Compliance, and Practice Management
Date:
October 24-25, 2020
Credit:
21 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Course Directors:
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD; Amol Soin, MD; Hans Hansen, MD
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Course Title:
Pain Medicine and Interventional Pain Management Comprehensive Review Course
Date:
November 6-8 and 13-15, 2020
Credit:
51 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Course Information:
This course, promoted in collaboration with PainExam.com and PainCast, offers preparation for ABMS Pain Medicine Board Examination, Controlled Substance Management Competency, ABIPP-Pathway, and the ABIPP Board Examination
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View On-Demand Recordings
of ASIPP Virtual Annual Meeting
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Did you pre-register for the ASIPP Virtual Annual Meeting? You may now view recordings of all sessions for free through October 5. Click here to enter the portal login and use the login credentials you used for the live meeting.
You will find the recordings by clicking the “On Demand” menu tab. If you have questions about your login credentials, contact Karen Avery at kavery@asipp.org.
ASIPP will offer reduced-fee pricing for access to the meeting recordings after October 5. Fee-based on-demand registrants will have access to the recordings and exhibit hall through June 2021. Watch for additional information next week!
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Controlled Substance Management
Only purchase if you attended the live webinar course
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Board Review Course
Only purchase if you attended the live webinar course
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Documentation, Coding, Compliance, and
Practice Management
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Controlled Substance Management |
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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 www.abipp.org or call 270-554-9412 x4217 or by email at summer@asipp.org.
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TESTS OFFERED
ABIPP Part I - Theoretical written exam - TBD
ABIPP Part II - Oral and Hands-on practical exam - TBD
ABIPP Competency Exam - includes written, oral, and hands-on practical examinations TBD
Combined CSM/CCPM Exam for ABIPP Path – TBD
Competency Exam in Controlled Substance Management – TBD
Competency Exam in Coding, Compliance, and Practice Management - TBD
Regenerative Medicine Competency Exam - includes written, oral, and hands-on practical examinations – TBD
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Parent Behavior Impacts Adolescent Headache Frequency and Disability |
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Protective parenting behavior is associated with significantly greater frequency of adolescent headaches, according to study results published in Headache.
Previous studies have shown that adolescent pain severity and pain-related disability are greater when parents report more frequent protective parenting behaviors. The connection, however, between headache frequency and parenting style has not yet been evaluated.
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Study findings suggested that psychological treatment targeting parental distress and behaviors may be related to improved outcomes for youths with recurrent headache. |
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Patients should be aware that it is possible to contract both influenza and COVID-19 simultaneously. |
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As Flu Season Approaches, Clinicians Brace for Potential ‘Twindemic’ |
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HealthDay News — Flu shots may be more important than ever this year, as COVID-19 presents new challenges for clinicians and communities this flu season. HD Live! spoke with Nadia Eltaki, M.D., director of clinical operations at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., to discuss how clinicians can potentially lessen the potential for an overlapping superinfection, or “twindemic.”
Influenza season typically begins in the United States between October and November, peaks between December and February, and lasts until about May, Eltaki explained. But this year, with COVID-19, clinicians face many obstacles in encouraging the public to get their flu vaccines. “The flu shot will be critically important this year to help protect patients, their families, and communities,” Eltaki said.
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Caleb Alexander, MD: Thoughts on the Opioid Epidemic |
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The ongoing opioid epidemic is a pervasive issue that healthcare providers are working to address and ultimately curb. However, solutions are not necessarily straightforward despite progress that has been made in this domain.
In a recent interview with HCPLive®, Caleb Alexander, MD, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Medicine, explained that such a crisis of this magnitude stems from complex factors. Rather than being attributed to a singular problem or issue, the epidemic has many different facets that contribute to its prevalence and severity.
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Read More and Watch The Video | HCPLive |
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Malaise, Body Aches in an 88-Year-Old - What Can It Be?
A clue came from her list of medications
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An 88-year-old woman presents to an emergency department in New York City with overall body aches. She explains that for the past 4 days, she has also been suffering from nausea, loss of appetite, and general malaise.
Her medical history indicates high blood pressure, depression, and osteoarthritis of both shoulders and both knees. She notes that before this, she was able to walk indoors with the help of a cane and travel outside with a walker. She says that she manages her activities of daily living independently, but needs her family's help to manage her finances, prepare meals, perform housework, and maintain her home (i.e., instrumental activities of daily living).
She says that for the past 5 years, she has been taking acetaminophen for her osteoarthritis, but with no relief. When she reported her ongoing pain to her family physician 2 weeks previously, he suggested a switch to naproxen to manage the pain.
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Being a chronic pain patient can put you at even greater risk of being lonely. On the one hand, we know that social isolation is unhealthy, but on the other hand, we don’t have a choice as we must practice social distancing and self-isolation to protect ourselves and others from the coronavirus.
I’m lonely, you’re lonely – now what?
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How Emotions Contribute
to Chronic Pain
Some therapists are using mindfulness-based
activities as pain treatment. Do they work?
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icole Sachs was 19 when she decided to try a psychology experiment on herself. She’d just been diagnosed with the spinal condition spondylolisthesis, which causes vertebrae to slip out of place. Sachs’ doctors gave her a discouraging prognosis: Without complex surgery, she wouldn’t be able to travel, play sports, or have kids.
In a search for other options, Sachs came across the work of Dr. John Sarno, a physician who theorized that the mind creates pain in the body as a distraction to keep people from addressing painful, repressed emotional issues. When emotional pain was addressed, Sarno believed, physical pain dissipated.
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ASIPP® Partners with Fedora Billing And Revenue Cycle Management Company
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ASIPP is now able to offer unique benefits for revenue cycle management with billing, etc.
Fedora 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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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.
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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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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| ORDER | Essentials of Regenerative Medicine in IPM
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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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In addition, PainExam has now collaborated with ASIPP and offer 2 new programs:
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2020 12th Annual Scientific
Meeting
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