Whether you're in a hospital or office-based practice, chronic pain patients are everywhere—and YOU are absorbing the burden of their care.

Current Situation for Tennessee Practitioners

"Tennessee is in the midst of an epidemic of prescription drug abuse and overdose deaths. Healthcare providers who treat pain are at Ground Zero in the battle to reduce overdose deaths, and Tennessee state agencies are taking aggressive action to make changes to state pain laws and rules. Join us in Nashville to learn about recent efforts by the federal government to reduce opioid abuse, stop opioid overdose, and minimize fraud and abuse in clinical laboratory, and learn how to protect the business of pain management."

-Jennifer Bolen, JD, Legal Side of Pain

Where?

Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University
2555 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203

Who Should Attend?

Physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and pharmacists.

Why Attend?

• If you are wondering if your patient evaluation, treatment plans, and patient
  monitoring program will stand up to an allegation of inappropriate prescribing or
  an allegation of healthcare fraud and abuse.
• In Tennessee, physicians must complete 40 hours of CME credit during each
  biennial review cycle and at least 1 contact hour must be relevant to
  prescribing practices. Nurse practitioners who possess a Certificate of Fitness
  must complete 1 contact hour designed to address the prescribing of
  controlled substances during each biennial review cycle.

Agenda

The program agenda will cover a mix of clinical and practice management topics. Among them will be:

• When Acute Pain Becomes Chronic
• Embrace 2015 Practice Changes and Patient Education:
  Overview of Critical Pain Management Practice Issues
• Differential Diagnosis of Low Back Pain
• Migraines: A to Z
• Management of Low Back Pain: Interventional Options
• Focus on Changes in Billing/Coding Clinical Laboratory:
  Roll with the Changes and Learn How to Keep Payors Out of Your Bank Accounts
• Pain Basics
• Get Your Specimens In Order:
  The Impact of Changes to the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS)
  and Payor Policies on Medical Record Documentation
• Risk Assessment: How to Do It, How to Use It
• The Complex Pain Patient
• Creating a Treatment Plan for Higher Risk Patients: A Case Based Approach
• A Legal Perspective on Practicing Medicine and Offering Ancillary Services:
  When Wearing 2 Hats May Cause You Problems Beyond a "Glamour Don't"

The two-day agenda will include both certified activities and noncertified product, disease awareness, medical information programs. Faculty and topics are subject to change.

Bonus #1
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Bonus #2
Receive Registration Credit for the PAINWeek 2015 National Conference!

With your registration to PAINWeekEnd, you'll also receive the full price rate of $99 credited toward your registration for the PAINWeek 2015 National Conference in Las Vegas, September 8-12.

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