April 26, 2018, VANCOUVER, B.C, Canada – Researchers have determined that an opioid overdose prevention program established in a comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation (CIR) unit with an interdisciplinary approach can lead to fewer opioid prescriptions and [...]
April 26, 2018, VANCOUVER, B.C, Canada —A new study suggests that for patients with chronic non-cancer pain, pain rehabilitation programs (PRPs) decrease their healthcare usage and encourage access to behavioral treatments that are more likely [...]
April 26, 2018, VANCOUVER, B.C, Canada – Several Chicago-based physicians treating pain patients recently performed research in hopes of discerning whether a phenomena that they observed clinically – that it was seemingly more difficult for [...]
April 26, 2018, VANCOUVER, B.C, Canada – Persistent neuropathic pain is a common complication in patients who have undergone breast cancer surgery. Approximately 300,000 mastectomies are performed in the U.S. each year, exposing a high [...]
April 26, 2018, VANCOUVER, B.C, Canada – As healthcare providers continue to respond to the ongoing opioid overdose crisis, addressing patient risk associated with moderate to very high dose prescription opioids has become a national [...]
April 26, 2018, VANCOUVER, B.C, Canada – Mental health embedded into a multidisciplinary pain treatment approach can improve chronic pain, function, mood, and sleep according to a recent study conducted at the University of Pittsburgh [...]
Four AAPM members join U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) task force May 8, 2018, CHICAGO – Among the 28 members appointed to the HHS new Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force, [...]
Source: Emily Hill, PA, AAPM Coding ConsultantDate: January 10, 2018The Coding and Reimbursement Committee has updated the coding information available on the AAPM website. New charts have been posted that include information concerning Medicare's 2018 [...]
Source: Emily Hill, PA, AAPM Coding ConsultantDate: January 24, 2018CMS has released a revised article that addresses the appropriate reporting of bilateral procedures and the potential impact of its rules known as "medically unlikely edits" [...]
Source: Emily Hill, PA, AAPM Coding ConsultantDate: February 7, 2018In October 2017 CMS launched a nationwide program to better target medical review, limit the number of medical records requested, and put an emphasis on education [...]
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