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Keep an eye on your mailbox for the latest issue of The Physiatrist. The June issue features:
Are you attending the AMA National Medical Student Annual Meeting on June 11? Your Academy will be at the Showcase from 11:30 am-1:30 pm at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. You’ll have the opportunity to speak with a few PM&R residents and ask questions about the specialty. Be sure to stop by! Learn more here.
Join us on Wednesday, October 19, for our preconference course, Clinical Applications of Ultrasound. Led by Course Director Christopher Visco, MD, this full-day course will teach you how to apply ultrasound to patients with musculoskeletal and neurologic diagnoses for diagnostic and interventional applications. You will receive more than 5 hours of hands-on ultrasound time to develop and understand the manual skills needed to improve your practice with clinical ultrasound. Learn more and register now!
Health care is undergoing extensive transformation. This transition period requires you to remain astute to these changes and flexible in adapting your practice. Our “Focusing on the Health of Your Practice” sessions are designed to enhance your understanding of the changes and opportunities currently available in health care. This focused theme will take you beyond the day-to-day practice challenges and help you understand what the future holds for physiatry in this changing health care landscape. View session highlights and learn more.
AAPM&R offers a variety of resources to help you study for subspecialty examinations. Did you know that only 33% of first-time takers of the Winter 2015 American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (ABPMR) sports medicine subspecialty examination passed? If you areplanning to take the Summer 2016 exam on July 13-16, make sure you are prepared byusing the Academy’s sports medicine resources:
Wheelchairs are generally used by individuals who have conditions that do not allow them to achieve independent movement. This complimentary webinar will address compliance and documentation for coverage of standard manual wheelchairs, power mobility devices, and mobility assistance equipment. Topics to be covered include general patient coverage criteria, provider requirements, supplier requirements, and the role of non-physician providers on the rehabilitation team. Learn more and sign up now!
At the NIH Rehabilitation Research Conference, “Moving the Field Forward’ held May 25- 26, 2016 on the NIH Campus, Francis Collins, MD, PhD, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), delivered the keynote address to 460 attendees, including Peter Esselman, MD, chair of the AAPM&R Quality Practice, Policy, and Research Committee (QPPR) and several AAPM&R members. Dr. Collins stressed the relevance and importance of rehabilitation to NIH and how the development of a coordinated rehabilitation research plan is long overdue. Read the full meeting recap here.
On May 27, your Academy co-signed a letter sponsored by the North American Neuromodulation Society commenting on the Official Disability Guidelines (ODG) proposed policy that would prevent coverage for intrathecal drug delivery systems (IDDS) for all workers’ compensation injuries, including new and current low dose therapies. The letter is in opposition to the ODG proposed policy in an effort to preserve patient access to this care. Learn more.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has updated their rule for using the JW modifier when discarding unused drugs from a single-use file. It is no longer voluntary, but mandatory beginning July 1, 2016. Learn more.
On April 27, a proposed rule was issued by the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that signifies the most extensive change in physician payment policies in the last 2 decades. Have you viewed the full proposed rule? If not, learn more and submit a formal comment by June 26.
Confused about MACRA? Watch our 30-minute webinar to learn more.
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