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Friday, February 3, 2012 Medicare Trust Fund Insolvent by 2024 » According to a report from the Social Security and Medicare board of trustees, the Medicare trust fund is estimated to bec...
Friday, February 3, 2012 CBO Projects 29.4% cuts in 2012 » According to Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections, published on June 14, 2011, payment rates for physician servic...
Friday, February 3, 2012 MedPAC Annual Report to Congress » The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) - an independent congressional agency, which advises the U.S. Congress o...
Friday, February 3, 2012 CMS Provider Call on HIPAA Version 5010 » The deadline for physician practices compliance with the HIPAA Version 2010 is January 1, 2012. Those who aren't prepared...
Friday, February 3, 2012 CPT Meeting » Dr. David O’Brien represented ISIS at the June 2-5 meeting of the AMA CPT Editorial Panel. The CPT Editorial Panel is a mu...
Friday, February 3, 2012 AMA House of Delegates Meeting » The AMA House of Delegates Meeting took place in Chicago June 18-22, 2011. The ISIS Delegate to the AMA is Dr. Lee Snook a...
Friday, February 3, 2012 Latest Info on the ACOs, Coding, Reimbursement and Coverage!! » Attend the ISIS Practice Management Pre-Conference (held the day before the ISIS Annual Scientific Meeting begins) to hear...
Friday, February 3, 2012 New CPT Codes for Peripheral Field Stimulation » Several new CPT codes were released by the AMA CPT Panel for reporting of peripheral field stimulation. The codes ar...
Friday, February 3, 2012 Washington State HTA Issues Final Decision on Spinal Injections » The Washington State Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Program finalized its decision regarding coverage of spinal inject...
Friday, February 3, 2012 2012 Proposed Medicare Physicain Payment Rule Released » The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the proposed physician payment rule, which confirms that...
Friday, February 3, 2012 Research Resources » The Research Committee is here to assist your research at any stage of development and to offer assistance to any ISIS mem...
Friday, February 3, 2012 ISIS Represented at Important Forums » Dr. Slevin Kieran represented ISIS at the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (PCPI). The PCPI develops, test...
Friday, February 3, 2012 The OIG Issues a Work Plan for 2012 » The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued the Work Plan for 2012, outlining the priorities for the upcoming year. T...
Friday, February 3, 2012 Congressional Advisory Body Recommends Cuts to Specialist Payments » The Medicare Payment Advisory Committee (MedPAC), a commission which advises the Congress on Medicare payment policy, duri...
Friday, February 3, 2012 ISIS Representatives Participate Medicare Refinement Panels » Dr. Christopher Merifield and Dr. Claire Tibiletti represented ISIS on three separate refinement panels convened by Center...
Friday, February 3, 2012 Volunteers Needed to Fill Out a Survey on Physician Work for Fluoroscopic Guidance CPT Code » ISIS is involved in the activities of the AMA/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC), which determi...
Friday, February 3, 2012 Dabigatran (Pradaxa) » Dabigatran etexilate (Pradaxa) is a prodrug; it is metabolized to dabigatran, a direct thrombin inhibitor. It is recently...
Friday, February 3, 2012 Research Funding Information » ISIS is dedicated to scientific advances in interventional spine care through its continued support of research. The socie...
Friday, February 3, 2012 2012 Medicare Physician Payment Rates in Limbo as Congress Fails to Act » The Medicare physician payment is set to be cut by 27.4 percent on January 1, 2012, unless Congress passes legislation to...
Friday, February 3, 2012 Medicare Contractor Reviewing Lumbar Facet Blocade Services » Noridian LLC, a contractor for Part B Medicare announced that it is initiating a specific review for Lumbar Facet Blocade...
Friday, January 27, 2012 ISIS Submits a Letter to CMS Regarding the Value of Transforaminal Epidural Code » The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in its final rule for the physician fee schedule for 2011 has publish...
Friday, January 27, 2012 Volunteers Needed to Fill Out a Survey on Physician Work for Interventional Spine Procedures » Please participate in a survey of physician work involved in interventional spine procedures in order to assure relative v...
Friday, January 27, 2012 IRS 1099 Reporting Requirement Eliminated » On April 5th, Senate passed a bill which eliminated a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) th...
Friday, January 27, 2012 Proposed ACO Rules Issued » The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released proposed new rules aiming at encouraging physicians, hospitals,...
Friday, January 27, 2012 CMS Publishes Electronic Prescribing Exemptions » CMS, in its June 1 st rule, added exemption categories to their e-prescribing penalty program in an effort to avoid...
Friday, January 27, 2012 ISIS Continues to Fight for the Coverage of Spinal Injections - MEMBERS ONLY » For the past few months ISIS leadership has been diligently working to preserve coverage for appropriately performed spina...
Thursday, January 26, 2012 ISIS Instrumental in Noridian Reversal of Non-Coverage Policy for Lumbar Facet Interventions » As a result of a 15 month effort, lead by ISIS and supported by 11 other medical societies (NASS, AAPM, AAPM&R, ASA, S...
Thursday, January 26, 2012 How Does ISIS Help You Get Paid For What You Do? » By David O'Brien Jr., MD \| Vice-Chair \| ISIS Socioeconomic Committee The days of receiving fee-for-service reimbursem...
Thursday, January 26, 2012 25% Medicare Cuts Stopped for 1 Year » The U.S. House of Representatives voted today to adopt legislation, identical to the one passed by the Senate yesterday, t...
Thursday, January 26, 2012 ISIS Represented at the CPT and RUC Meetings » Drs. Scott Horn and Claire Tibiletti represented ISIS at the AMA CPT Editorial Panel Meeting which took place on February...
Thursday, January 26, 2012 The Value of ISIS Socioeconomic Committee – An Editorial - MEMBERS ONLY » By Lee Thomas Snook, Jr., MD I have been a member of ISIS since 1997. At the time there were many organizations claim...
Thursday, January 26, 2012 Important Changes to the CPT® Codes for the Transforaminal Epidural Injections - MEMBERS ONLY » As of January 1st 2011, important CPT® coding changes for the transforaminal epidural injections go into effect. The imagi...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 TRICARE Reverses Non-Coverage Policy for Cervical and Lumbar Radiofrequency » TRICARE - a health care program serving active duty service members, retirees, their families, survivors and others entitl...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 ISIS Leadership Cultivates Multi-Society Collaboration by Organizing an Interventional Spine Summit » Dr. Way Yin, ISIS President, recognizing that it is extremely important to cultivate multi-specialty and multi-society col...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 OIG Issues a Report on Transforaminal Epidural Injections » The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) released its report on transforaminal epidu...
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