ASIPP
Quality and Value
ASIPP is the Premier Pain Organization Defending YOU in Washington, DC
- Decades of Relationships with the Influential Congressional Members.
- Pre-Authorization
- 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)
Only pain society who routinely hosts legislative fly-ins
Advocacy to repeal the SGR
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
KANSAS SOCIETY OF INTERVENTIONAL PAIN PHYSICIANS
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
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 Settings: Practice Expenses for IPM ($59.04 to $156.79), AMA Membership and State Societies
- Research and Education: Webinar 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.
NUCC Definition, 2002/2003
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
MedPAC Report, 2001
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
tom@willowrisk.com
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 A/R Management
And more!
INTERVENTIONAL PAIN Management
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERVENTIONAL PAIN PHYSICIANS
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERVENTIONAL PAIN PHYSICIANS-PAC
