​ASSOCIATE STATE SOCIETY OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERVENTIONAL PAIN PHYSICIANS

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ASIPP

Quality and
Value

ASIPP is the Premier Pain Organization Defending YOU in Washington, DC

Decades of Relationships with the Influential Congressional Members.

Preauthorization
Best Practices in Pain Management Guide by HHS During the Opioid Epidemic.
Stop Onerous Investigations
Defending and Improving Your Reimbursements
MIPS/EHRS/”Meaningless Use”

What Has ASIPP Done For YOU in the Time of COVID?

COVID Taskforce Meeting Weekly
HHS Grants
Funding from CARES Act
Telemedicine

  • Increased payments for Telephone only calls
  • Helped reduce onerous restrictions for all other telehealth and electronic prescribing
COVID Procedure Risk Stratification Guide
Path to Reopening Your Practice Guide
Webinars

Other Critical Legislative
Accomplishments

NASPER- National Prescription Monitoring Database

We have prescription drug monitoring programs in all states except Missouri (which is coming soon)

Advocacy to repeal the SGR

Only pain society who routinely hosts legislative fly-ins

We have the ASIPP Political Action Committee

Behind the
Scenes Activity

Contractor Advisory Committee (CAC) Membership

  • Ensures we have a seat at the table when coverage determinations are being made by Medicare

Specialty designation and membership in the AMA

  • We are one of the most influential sub-specialty societies in the House of Medicine
  • Your concurrent AMA membership is critical to determine our reimbursement and remain influential

We Are Even Locally
Doing Things For YOU!

State Societies providing leadership opportunities and localized advocacy

Education through high quality CME

Board certification through ABIPP

Procedure specific competency certificates

Practice expense guidelines

COVID-19 RESPONSE

HHS Payment Program
Telehealth extension
Telehealth to Medicare Advantage Plans & Commercial Payers
HHS Payment Program
Weekly Webinars
Breaking News
Business/Economic Information
COVID-19 ASIPP Updates
Back to Work & Procedure Guidelines

ASIPP’s-
Top 10 Achievements

ASIPP had many, many achievements, we all think and Lax thinks is the most important are membership on the CAC. Everyone was negative about this, but Lax pursued it and we finally got through legislature.

The second one is starting of Pain Physician journal. Lax started this single handedly. If you remember all the articles used to be written by him in the entire journal, now he puts only a few of them. This is one of the journals in clinical neurology group. Impact factor is higher than Spine, Spine Journal, Anesthesiology, Clinical Journal of Pain, Pain itself, and other journals. This is the only practical journal for interventional pain management.

NASPER of course is the first ever legislation which passed the congress and was signed into law which was proposed by an organization. Because of the NASPER today we have prescription drug monitoring programs in all states except Missouri which is coming up.

All others include, of course, specialty designation, practice expense guidelines, education, board certification, membership in AMA and state societies and multitude of issues related to reimbursement which are too many for me to go talk about here.

This essentially increased from $59.04 at one time to $156.79 keeping our reimbursement significantly from falling.

IPM as 34th specialty on Carrier Advisory Committee (CAC)

Pain Physician journal & Pain Medicine Case Reports

NASPER – Now in all 50 states

Specialty Designation & IPM techniques definitions

Payment Reforms in all SettingsPractice Expenses for IPM ($59.04 to $156.79)

AMA Membership and State Societies

Research and EducationWebinar lectures, Workshops, Annual meetings

Certification – ABIPP

Capitol visits

Partnerships

Interventional Pain Management

Interventional Pain Management is the discipline of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of pain-related disorders principally with the application of interventional techniques in managing sub-acute, chronic, persistent, and intractable pain, independently or in conjunction with other modalities of treatment.

Interventional Pain Management Techniques

Interventional pain management techniques are minimally invasive procedures, including percutaneous precision needle placement, with placement of drugs in targeted areas or ablation of targeted nerves and some surgical techniques, such as laser or endoscopic diskectomy, intrathecal infusion pumps and spinal cord stimulators, for the diagnosis and management of chronic, persistent or intractable pain

ASIPP liability insurance in collaboration with NORCAL Mutual

Additional discount for ABIPP certification

Please direct any questions from the physicians to :

Thomas Wierzbowski
Willow Risk Advisors
350 N. Main Street
Doylestown, PA 18901

(P) 267-448-5087 x 1001
(C) 267-884-2729
(F) 267-448-5247
[email protected]

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/50 ml 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.

ASIPP Partnership – Fedora Billing and Revenue
Cycle Management Company

ASIPP is now offering our members the benefit of a unique revenue cycle management/billing service. We have received a tremendous amount of interest in the ASIPP billing and coding program. One question we continue to receive is what the negotiated rate is for practices.

Reporting

Credentialing

Charge and Payment Posting

Pre-certification/ Prior Authorization

Denials and AR Management

And More!

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.

You may view the ASIPP billing program website at the following link https://www.asippbilling.com

INTERVENTIONAL
PAIN MANAGEMENT

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF
INTERVENTIONAL
PAIN PHYSICIANS

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