PAINWeekEnd Baltimore October 24-25, 2015 Sat/Sun 14 CE/CME Credits www.painweekend.org "Chronic pain is on the doorstep of every healthcare provider on Main Street" - Kevin L. Zacharoff, MD, FACIP, FACPE, FAAP Faculty Clinical Instructor, SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine Vice President of Medical Affairs, Inflexxion Don't Get Waitlisted! -------------------------------------------------- Whether you're in a hospital or office-based practice, chronic pain patients are everywhere-and YOU are absorbing the burden of their care. PAINWeekEnd: Pain Management for the Main Street Practitioner has been created to streamline the clutter of information on assessment, evolving guidelines and risk management. Join us for a day of clinical and practice management CE/CME designed expressly for frontline clinicians. Where? Baltimore Marriott Waterfront 700 Aliceanna Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 Who Should Attend? Physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and pharmacists. Why Attend? Pain is the primary reason Americans seek health care, and our aging population will keep pain in the forefront of your patient presentations. And the rapidly evolving regulatory environment in medication risk management has implications for your patients and your practice. If you have Physician Assistants on your team, the State of Maryland requires at least 50 hours of Category 1 CME each biennial license cycle, with a minimum of 8 hours related to pharmacology topics. 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 - Dodging Elusive and Miscalculated Opioid Risks - Chronic Pain Assessment - Nonopioid Analgesics: Antidepressants, Adjuvant Therapies, and Muscle Relaxants - Get Your Specimens In Order: The Impact of Changes to the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) and Payor Policies on Medical Record Documentation - Differential Diagnosis of Low Back Pain - A Legal Perspective on Practicing Medicine and Offering Ancillary Services: When Wearing 2 Hats May Cause You Problems Beyond a “Glamour Don’t” - Acetaminophen, NSAIDs, and Opioids, Oh My! Who is the Naughtiest Kitten in the Bunch? - Management of Low Back Pain: Interventional Options - Opioid Conversion Calculations - Focus on Changes in Billing/Coding Clinical Laboratory: Roll With the Changes and Learn How to Keep Payors Out of Your Bank Accounts 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 Save $99 and register at NO COST by October 10, 2015 using code PWEHRX. This is a time-limited offer! Go to http://conference.painweek.org/painweekend/locationsanddates/baltimore-md to view the location, PAINWeekEnd conference agenda, and to register. Bonus #2 Receive Registration Credit for the PAINWeek 2016 National Conference! With your registration to PAINWeekEnd, you'll also receive the full price rate of $99 credited toward your registration for the PAINWeek 2016 National Conference in Las Vegas, September 6-10. Accreditation and Group Offers For more information about PAINWeekEnd accreditation and group offers, please visit painweekend.org. PAINWeek 6 Erie Street Montclair, NJ 07042 info@painweek.org Tel: (877) 724-6933 This activity is provided by Global Education Group. This activity has been approved for 14.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Creditsô. Nursing, pharmacist, and nurse practitioner credits will be provided as well. For more information about the accreditation of this program, please contact Global at (303) 395-1752 or inquire@globaleducationgroup.com (mailto:inquire@globaleducationgroup.com). We hope you found this message to be useful. However, if you prefer not to receive future emails from us, please visit http://rxinsider.net/users/opt_out.php?email=%Subscriber:EmailAddress%&unsubscribe=%Link:Unsubscribe% to discontinue service.