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Thursday, October 30, 2025 Elimination of Pain Treatments Looming – Act Now » Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) covering most of the US are moving to terminate patients’ access to many...
Monday, October 27, 2025 Stop “Black Box” Prior Authorization » IPSIS is concerned that recent prior authorization proposals from the Health Level Seven International (HL7) Da Vinci Proj...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025 Seeking PNS Policy Revisions From BCBS » IPSIS has convened the Multisociety Pain Workgroup (MPW) to call on Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) plans to cover Periphe...
Monday, October 13, 2025 ACT NOW: Save Peripheral Nerve Block and RFA Coverage » Immediate Action Needed A proposed Local Coverage Determination (LCD) wrongly classifies peripheral nerve blocks an...
Thursday, October 9, 2025 IPSIS Seeks Physician Waiver From New $100K Visa Fee » IPSIS joined the American Medical Association and 50 other national medical societies in urging the Department of Homeland...
Monday, September 29, 2025 Graham E. Wagner, MD, Represented IPSIS at the September 2025 AMA RUC Meeting » Graham E. Wagner, MD, represented IPSIS members at the September 2025, American Medical Association (AMA) Relative Value U...
Monday, September 22, 2025 Yusef Sayeed, MD, Represented IPSIS at the September 2025 AMA CPT Meeting » IPSIS is represented by Dr. Yusef Sayeed at the September 2025 American Medical Association (AMA) Current Procedural Ter...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule » IPSIS submitted comments 🔒 to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in response to the 2026 Medicare Phy...
Monday, August 11, 2025 IPSIS Identifies Critical Flaws in AHRQ Draft Review on Lumbar Spine Treatments » Comments 🔒 submitted by IPSIS and endorsed by the North American Spine Society raise serious concerns about a draft syst...
Thursday, August 7, 2025 OIG: Improper Payments for Anesthesia in Spine Procedures » A report from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) estimated that Medi...
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 IPSIS Urges BCBSMA to Expand PNS Coverage » IPSIS urges Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) to revise its medical policy on implantable Peripheral Nerve...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 2026 Medicare Fee Schedule Preliminary Analysis » IPSIS members — your Calendar Year (CY) 2026 Proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MFPS) Preliminary Analysis is now a...
Friday, July 11, 2025 New Scam Targeting Physicians » The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a warning that scammers impersonating DEA personnel are not...
Thursday, July 3, 2025 Draft AHRQ Review on Interventions for Degenerative Spine Disease » The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a comprehensive systematic review evaluating the effe...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025 Noridian Adopts IPSIS-Suggested Coverage Changes » Following IPSIS advocacy, Noridian has made critical coverage updates which align Noridian’s policies with national s...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 Calling Congress to Address Medicare Payments » On June 23, 2025, IPSIS joined 75 clinician organizations in a letter urging the Senate to include a key Medicare paymen...
Monday, June 23, 2025 Calling on Carelon to Cover SCS » IPSIS joined 5 other medical societies in calling on Carelon Health to modify its restrictive policy on spinal cord s...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 Drs. W. David Mauck and Kate Sayeed Represent IPSIS at the AMA House of Delegates Meeting » Drs. W. David Mauck and Kate Sayeed are representing IPSIS at the June 6-11, 2025, American Medical Association (...
Monday, June 2, 2025 Stopping Humana PNS Delays and Denials » On May 12, 2025, IPSIS and the 10 other medical societies of the Multisociety Pain Workgroup (MPW) notified Humana of...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Urgent: Tell Your Senators to Support S. 1640 Today! » Due to Congressional inaction in 2024, US physicians received yet another 2.83% payment cut starting January 1, 2025, mark...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Advocating for Earlier Access to Vertebral Compression Fracture Treatment » IPSIS joined nine other national medical specialty societies in a letter sent to major commercial payors, calling for upda...
Monday, May 12, 2025 Promoting BVN Ablation Coverage » On May 1, 2025, IPSIS submitted a letter 🔒 to UnitedHealthcare (UHC) urging a policy change to align with both science...
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 IPSIS & Coalition Oppose Chiropractic Coverage Expansion » On April 28, 2025, IPSIS joined over 100 national and state medical societies in strong opposition to S. 106/H.R. 539, the...
Friday, May 2, 2025 Yusef Sayeed, MD, Represented IPSIS at the May 2025 AMA CPT Meeting » IPSIS is represented by Dr. Yusef Sayeed at the May 2025 American Medical Association (AMA) Current Procedural Terminology...
Monday, April 7, 2025 Review and Dispute for Program Year 2024 Open Payments Data Now Available Through May 15, 2025 » IPSIS urges you to review what industry reported about you before the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (C...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 BMJ Guideline Response » IPSIS prepared and submitted a statement , supported by 33 other societies representing physicians who treat chronic pai...
Thursday, February 27, 2025 New Push to Restore VKS Coverage in Washington State » On February 20, 2025, IPSIS submitted comments 🔒 formally objecting to the Washington Health Care Authority’s Health Te...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 BMJ Guideline Response » IPSIS is aware of the recent clinical practice guideline and systematic review/meta-analysis published in The BMJ r...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 IPSIS Advocates for Increased Medicare Payments » IPSIS, along with national and state medical organizations, has urged Congress to reverse the latest round of Medicare p...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 IPSIS Calls for Facet Joint Intervention LCD Corrections » On February 6, 2025, IPSIS submitted letters to six Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) proposing crucial corr...
Friday, February 7, 2025 IPSIS Representation at the February 2025 AMA CPT Meeting » IPSIS is represented by Dr. Yusef Sayeed at the February 2025 American Medical Association (AMA) Current Procedural Termin...
Friday, February 7, 2025 Fentanyl Crisis: Calling for Specific Government Actions » IPSIS has joined ten other medical specialty societies in urging the US Congress to take decisive action against the growi...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 WA HTCC Rejects Coverage for VKS » On January 31, 2025, Dr. Scott Kreiner represented IPSIS members by testifying before the Washington State Health Tec...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 URGENT: Zoom Link to 1/31 WA State VKS Coverage Hearing » At 8:00 am on Friday, January 31, 2025, the Washington State Health Technology Clinical Committee (WA HTCC) will meet via...
Friday, January 17, 2025 Drs. Ibazebo & Wagner Represent IPSIS at the AMA RUC Meeting » Wesley R. Ibazebo, MD, and Graham E. Wagner MD, are representing IPSIS members at the January 2025, American Medical Assoc...
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