#19 Drs Zachary McCormick & Alex Fogarty - Protecting the Future for Americans with Pain

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https://tinyurl.com/Pain-Petition

🚨Peripheral nerve blocks affected:
1. Occipital nerve block and denervation
2. Stellate ganglion block
3. Trigeminal nerve block
4. Suprascapular nerve block
5. Thoracic nerve block
6. Thoracic nerve denervation
7. Genicular nerve blocks (GNB), cryoneurolysis or ablation
8. Pudendal nerve block
9. Digital nerve block
10. Posterior tibial nerve block at the tarsal tunnel
11. Ulnar nerve block
12. Denervation of the trigeminal nerve for any diagnosis other than TN
13. Any other peripheral nerves blocks or denervations not listed above

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NGS (DL40267): https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/view/lcd.aspx?lcdId=40266

Open Comment Period: closes 11/8

Noridian (DL40265): https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/view/lcd.aspx?lcdid=40264
Open Comment Period: closes 11/8

Palmetto (DL40263): https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/view/lcd.aspx?lcdid=40262&ver=8&contractorName=2&contractorNumber=all&proposedStatus=all&sortBy=title&bc=10
Open Comment Period: closes 11/8

CGS (DL40261): https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/view/lcd.aspx?lcdid=40260
Open Comment Period: closes 11/8

WPS (DL40300): https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/view/lcd.aspx?lcdid=40299&ver=2&stateRegion=all&contractorNumber=all&proposedStatus=all&sortBy=title&bc=11
Open Comment Period: closes 11/22 

🚨Attending speaking events below:

Open Meetings Info (CT), register through:

• CGS: Tuesday, 10/28, 3–4:30 PM https://www.cgsmedicare.com/parta/medicalpolicy/articles/cope186940.html
• NGS: Thursday, 10/30, 11 AM–1 PM
  https://www.ngsmedicare.com/web/ngs/lcd-open-meeting?selectedArticleId=2462862&lob=96664&state=97244&rgion=93624
• Noridian: Thursday, 10/30, 2–4 PM
  https://med.noridianmedicare.com/web/jeb/policies/lcd/open
• Palmetto: Monday, 10/27, 9–11 AM or 12–2 PM
  https://palmettogba.com/jmb/did/qgiceha8vk
• WPS: Wednesday, 10/22, 1–3 PM
  https://www.wpsgha.com/guides-resources/view/539

For more information, check here:
https://www.ipsismed.org/news/712316/ACT-NOW-Save-Peripheral-Nerve-Block-and-RFA-Coverage.htm

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), has proposed eliminating coverage for many peripheral nerve blocks and radiofrequency ablations.

We unpack the significance of this proposal in this episode.

Joining me are: Dr. Zachary McCormick, and to put it succinctly, he’s a legend. He is currently the Professor and Vice Chair of PM&R at the University of Utah and vice president of IPSIS, whose research and leadership have shaped modern interventional spine and musculoskeletal medicine, and Dr. Alex Fogarty, a Harvard-trained triple board-eligible physician in PM&R, Sports, and Pain Medicine, and a rising voice in innovation and advocacy for comprehensive

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