AAPM&R Connection E-Newsletter

Take 20 minutes to complete the PM&R Compensation Survey and reap the benefits. If statistical significance is achieved, AAPM&R member participants will receive the in-depth reports released in 2017 for FREE.

We've sent you 3 emails—May 19, June 5, and June 13—check those emails for your log in information, which is required to participate to ensure that your compensation data is protected. Learn more.

Keep an eye on your mailbox for the latest issue of The Physiatrist. The June issue features:

• Why is Advocating for Physiatry Important? Academy Members Share Their Experiences
• Hospital Care Standards for Delivering High-Quality Surgical Care to Older Adults: An Interview with Richard Zorowitz, MD, FAAPMR
• Save the Date: Physiatry Day 2017
• A Day on the Hill With the Academy Leadership Fellows
• Why Attend the Next Step Interventional Ultrasound: Hands-On PM&R Applications Course? Find Out From the Course Directors
  
  

Don’t delay! These deadlines are quickly approaching:

• PhyzTalk Submissions—due TOMORROW, June 15
• Late-Breaking Abstracts—due June 30
  

Education takes center stage at #AAPMR2017 with even more opportunities for specialized learning. You asked for more educational content and we listened. Enjoy more complimentary sessions included in your registration throughout the Assembly. Browse our themes below:

Come to #AAPMR2017 early for our new leadership preconference course on October 11. Attendees will develop new skills in team/system negotiations and conflict management, integrate the skills needed to be successful in the business of the new health care, and construct personal environmental scans and development plans. Learn more and register by August 30 for discounts. All preconference courses are MOC^® approved—visit the website for details.

Denver brews more beer than any other city in the nation, with more than 200 different beers brewed daily! So we’re hosting this year’s President’s Reception at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, located in downtown Denver. Challenge your peers to a friendly game of billiards or shuffleboard and enjoy New American pub grub in the brewery’s billiards parlor. Kick back, relax, and listen to live music with a freshly-brewed glass of custom AAPM&R beer! Limited tickets are available—register early.

P.S. Help name our custom brew! Send us your ideas here. Multiple options encouraged.

Join AAPM&R Reimbursement and Policy Review Committee members Drs. Matthew Grierson and Scott Horn for a rapid-fire review of interventional physiatry coding. This complimentary webinar will consist of expert answers to your burning questions about physiatry coding. Register now.

Submit questions in advance to codingquestions@aapmr.org using the subject line "webinar question" to be sure you walk away with the coding knowledge you need.

Your Academy, with the help of members of the Evidence, Quality, Performance Committee (EQPC), Post-Acute Care Work Group, and Reimbursement and Policy Review Committee (RPRC), are hard at work reviewing the latest proposed payment rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). We are in the process of developing comment letters on behalf on the specialty. View the proposed rules here.

Your Academy, represented by Dr. Bruce Pomeranz, is participating in the “Improving Hospital Outcomes through Patient Engagement (i-HOPE)” project. We would like input from all member physiatrists regarding any questions that are left unanswered related to hospitalization or the time immediately following hospitalization. Learn more and participate.

The United States Bone and Joint Initiative (USBJI) and Bone and Joint Canada are dedicated to increasing research of musculoskeletal diseases and have developed a grant mentoring program to provide early-career investigators an opportunity to work with experienced researchers to assist them in securing funding and other survival skills required for pursuing an academic career.

The fall workshop will be held November 10-12, 2017 in Toronto, Ontario. The deadline to apply is July 15, 2017. Learn more and apply for this program.

• Howard Liss, MD, FAAPMR, physiatrist and co-founder of The PM&R Center, and an attending physician at both Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and Englewood Hospital, is opening his own private practice in Englewood and Fort Lee. Read more.
  
  
• Charles Markowitz, MD, JD, FAAPMR, medical director of rehabilitation at Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus, is the first physiatrist to have ever received the Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus Foundation's annual Humanitarian Award. Read more.

Do you have a newsworthy story to share with your peers? Send us an email at: pressinquiries@aapmr.org. Please note: AAPM&R reserves the right to deny requests where the purpose or content may not be considered in the best interests of AAPM&R or its members.