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The following courses are offered:

Documentation, Coding, Compliance, and Practice Management Review Course

Controlled Substance Management Review Course

*Pain Medicine and Interventional Pain Management Comprehensive Review Course

*not available until the end of the live course July 26, 2020

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ASIPP UPDATES

ASIPP COVID-19 Update May 19, 2020

While we are still working on an extension of telephone only and telehealth services, we have not yet been provided a confirmation. However, we want to update our members to avoid any confusion. We were under the impression that June 6 was the end of it but we have now learned it is June 30. (continue reading)

May 12, 2020 Update on COVID-19 News, Resources, and Activity

Dear Friends,

We hope you are doing well. We would like to share with you a few recent issues and updates. (Continue Reading)

HHS Extends Deadline for Provider Relief Fund Payments, HHG OIG Opioid Toolkits, and Update on Opening up Practices

We would like to bring you some good news about the extension of the deadline for attestation and acceptance of terms and conditions for Provider Relief Fund payments to 45 days, the release of 2 toolkits for calculating opioids levels and identifying patients at risk of misuse or overdose, and lastly, an update on opening up your practices. (Continue Reading)

Correspondence

5.6.2020 Letter to Rand Paul Re: Bipartisan Bill Addressing Shortage of doctors and nurses

5.1.2020 Letter to Seema Verma RE audio only visits

4.15.20 Letter to Seema Verma RE: Questions regarding telephone only, telehealth and reduced reimbursement in contrast to March 17,2020 promotion statement on telehealth in Medicare

4.9.20 Letter to Seema Verma

4.8.20 Response Letter from CMS

CHECKLIST AND RISK STRATIFICATION FOR OPENING OF INTERVENTIONAL PAIN MANAGEMENT PRACTICES

Hopefully, you and your family stayed healthy during the lockdown and are now ready to get back to work. Before you do, there are some things you need to think about. This message will serve to give you some food for thought, so that when you get to work, you do it safely for your patients, staff and yourself. Thank you to Ricardo Buenaventura, MD for compiling these following steps to help the ASIPP members reopen their practices in a safe and efficient manner.

Please check with your state's department of health and medical board regulations to make sure your office is in compliance with your local regulations.

There are several steps to take as you open your office to a full schedule, and range of procedures, during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. Checklist

ASIPP BREAKING NEWS April 30, 2020 - Great News for Audio Payment Only!

In response to the tireless efforts of ASIPP, Community Oncology Alliance (COA), and organized medicine, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced this afternoon that they will be covering telephone only services at the same rate as in-office services, as we requested in our letter to CMS Administrator, Seema Verma. While this outcome is technically different form our request, it is financially the same.

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Changes to Risk Stratification Documents

On April 27, we sent you a toolkit explaining morbidity risk mitigation flowchart for IPM and ASIPP risk stratification of patients presenting for pain procedures. This toolkit is for Phase I only.

Since releasing it, we have received multiple comments. There have been a few comments and requests for changes. In response, we have taken another look at it and made the appropriate changes. Please look over each document.(continue reading)