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This page includes a compilation of our posts and resources that we believe will be of interest to a variety of healthcare providers and researchers.
National Updates – December 2022
Congress Expands Access to Non-Opioid Pain Management by Passing the NOPAIN Act The NOPAIN Act has been passed by Congress in a direct push to address outdated federal reimbursement policies in an effort to combat the opioid crisis through increased utilization of...
CDC Expands Opioid Guidance to Include Acute Pain and Additional Providers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released its Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain (2022). Updated and revised, this new guidance is intended to replace the CDC’s 2016 opioid guideline. While the previous guideline was...
National Updates – November 2022
CDC Expands Opioid Guidance to Include Acute Pain and Additional Providers The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released its Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain (2022). Updated and revised, this new guidance is intended to...
CMS Creates New Pain Management Codes Heeding Advice of AACIPM
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued its finalized 2023 Physician Fee Schedule, creating, for the first time, billing codes at the federal level that are specific to the delivery of chronic pain management (CPM) services. These codes...
CMS and CDC releases guidance | AACIPM requests your feedback
We would love to hear your feedback after this busy week! Many of you have been engaged in AACIPM's efforts to craft comments to recent requests from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC). In the past week or so,...
AACIPM Participated in the NCCIH Stakeholder Meeting for Research on Whole Person Health
As a first step in furthering research on whole person health, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) along with a number of others, held a workshop on Methodological Approaches for Whole Person Research in September 2021. This workshop...
National Updates – October 2022
AACIPM Participated in the NCCIH Stakeholder Meeting for Research on Whole Person Health As a first step in furthering research on whole person health, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) along with a number of others, held a workshop...
AACIPM Issues Recommendations on Comprehensive Pain Management Under Medicare
On September 6, 2022, AACIPM submitted a set of eight recommendations related to comprehensive pain management services to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) related to the proposed 2023 Physician Fee Schedule. Issued in response to CMS’ newly...
National Updates – August 2022
AHRQ Seeks Public Comment on Cervical Degenerative Disease Treatment The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is seeking public comment related to treatments for cervical degenerative disease. The agency is seeking answers to a long list of key and contextual...
National Updates – July 2022
US Military Updates Practice Guideline on the Management of Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense have released an update to their joint guideline on managing pain: Use of Opioids in the Management of...
CMS Takes Action on AACIPM Recommendations Regarding Bundled Payments for Integrative Pain Management
In an exciting turn of events, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) have released a draft of the Physician Fee Schedule for 2023 for public comment—and it is clear that the collective efforts of AACIPM and its member organizations on the 2022 PFS have...
National Updates – June 2022
Supreme Court Refuses to Expand Criminal Liability in Opioid Prescribing Cases The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously held that physicians who are authorized to prescribe controlled substances can only be convicted for violating the Controlled Substances Act when they...
National Updates – May 2022
NIH Pain Consortium Symposium to Highlight Whole Person Health Approach for Pain Management on June 1st and 2ndThis year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pain Consortium Annual Symposium on Advances in Pain Research will focus on “Pain Management Through the...
National Updates – April 2022
NCCIH Requests Information on Determinants for Whole Person Health The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) is soliciting public comment as it seeks to define a set of key determinants of health that address factors that can influence...
AACIPM responds to CDC Opioid Guideline
In response to CDC’s release of the draft CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids—United States, 2022, AACIPM has issued a public comment on behalf of 44 individual and organizational signatories representing a broad spectrum of health care providers,...
National Updates – March 2022
Congress Considers Payment for Non-opioids in the NOPAIN ActThe Non-Opioids Prevent Addiction in the Nation Act (NOPAIN Act) has been introduced in the Senate. If passed, this bill would temporarily establish Medicare reimbursement for a period of five years for...
National Updates – February 2022
CDC Releases Opioid Guideline for Public Comment The CDC has officially released the draft CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids—United States, 2022. The docket is now open for public comment, and it will remain open until April 11, 2022. In order to...
CDC Releases Opioid Guideline for Public Comment
The CDC has officially released the draft CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids—United States, 2022. The docket is now open for public comment, and it will remain open until April 11, 2022. Federal Register Notice Full Docket, including links to the...
Spotlight: CDC’s Chad Helmick Speaks on the Past (and Future) of Pain Policy upon Eve of Retirement
After an illustrious 42-year career, including 240 publications and unparalleled advocacy in pain management, Charles (Chad) G. Helmick III, MD (CAPT, USPHS, RET) is officially retiring from CDC on December 31. It is with bittersweet hearts that we at AACIPM announce...
National Updates – November 2021
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...
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