AACIPM website includes a repository of resources that support the mission to advance access to equitable, whole person, multimodal, guideline-concordant integrative pain management.
More resources and publications will be coming soon. If you have suggestions about relevant resources that should be included, please contact Amy Goldstein.
CMS Issues 2022 PFS, Delays Changes to Pain Coding but Directly Quotes AACIPM Letter CMS has released the final physician fee schedule for 2022, making updates to Medicare Part B payment policies, coverage of opioid use disorder services furnished by opioid treatment...
CMS Issues 2022 PFS, Delays Changes to Pain Coding but Directly Quotes AACIPM Letter CMS has released the final physician fee schedule for 2022, making updates to Medicare Part B payment policies, coverage of opioid use disorder services furnished by opioid treatment...
NIH HEAL Initiative Announces Funding Opportunities Related to Health Equity in Pain Management, Myofascial Pain, and Sickle Cell Disease The HEAL Initiative from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released information on a number of funding opportunities...
AccendoWave is an exciting new system that uses machine learning technology to objectively measure and manage pain without relying on the current standard of subjective pain data. Harnessing active comfort management technology through use of a tablet computer, EEG...
Updates from HHS AHRQ Releases Systematic Review of Interventional Treatments for Acute and Chronic Pain The Evidence-based Practice Center Program at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has completed and released their evidence review of...
The result of this effort was shared agreement across multi-stakeholder leaders representing payers, providers, patients In response to a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed rule regarding changes to the 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule,...
CARA 3.0 Begins Long Journey Toward Passage The House of Representatives has begun work on the third iteration of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, known this time around as the CARA 3.0 Act of 2021. The House introduced CARA 3.0, also known as HR 4341, in...
AACIPM acts as a connector, even between staff at Health & Human Services (HHS) agencies, who tell us they appreciate being kept abreast of what each specific agency is doing as it relates to pain care. This section is intended to help synthesize HHS highlights,...
AACIPM recently had a conversation with Paula Gardiner, MD, MPH, and Jeffrey Geller, MD. We spoke to them about the new Integrated Center for Group Medical Visits, group medical visits for persons living with chronic pain, how group visits can address inequities in...
AACIPM acts as a connector, even between staff at Health & Human Services (HHS) agencies, who tell us they appreciate being kept abreast of what each specific agency is doing as it relates to pain care. This section is intended to help synthesize HHS highlights,...
On June 21, AACIPM submitted a collective response to AHRQ during the comment period for their systematic review related to integrated pain management programs. As you may recall, AHRQ posted the proposed research protocol for Integrated Pain Management Programs...
by Amy Goldstein, MSW, Director, AACIPM What is CARA and how does it relate to the work of AACIPM and whole health pain management?Let’s connect some dots to help our AACIPM readers understand how the federal policy called “CARA” is connected to our work, and to...
A Paradigm Shift to Advance Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management Year-End Review 2020 AACIPM's 2020 Highlights Click on each topic to learn more. (e.g., March Purchaser Focus Group, Benefit Design Workgroup, CO Testimony to DOI) (e.g., May Symposium,...
During Thanksgiving week, AHRQ issued a request for comment regarding their research protocol for integrated pain management programs. In response, AACIPM facilitated a December 15 call among coalition members to discuss. Thirty-five (35) people representing payors,...
A summary of AACIPM's September symposiumDuring AACIPM’s fall symposium, Equity in Access to Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management for People with Chronic Pain, the agenda included many important leaders who are striving to align coverage policy, network design,...
The codes are non-billable and allow chaplains to be part of the clinical count, nonbillable workload for VA. These codes will become effective on October 1, 2020. With more spiritual care provided in VA facilities, it will make a positive and meaningful difference in the lives of our Veterans.
Access to Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management for People in the Safety Net An interview with Sharad Kohli, MD You work at People’s Community Clinic – what kind of a clinic is this? People’s Community Clinic (PCC) is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)...
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced substantial changes in many aspects of our lives, as witnessed by the soaring unemployment rate, oil prices sinking so low that companies actually were paying people to take oil from them, and the widespread shutdown of social...
Dr. Jeffery Dusek is the Director of Research, Connor Integrative Health Network, University Hospitals, Cleveland OH and an Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. He also serves as the...