Upcoming Webinar Series and Special Events

Pediatric Rehabilitation Lecture Series

Stay current on clinical knowledge through our pediatric rehabilitation lecture webinar series.

Tone Management Jeopardy

Thursday, February 25 at 3 pm (CT)

Kelly L.D. Pham, MD, FAAPMR from Seattle Children's Hospital presents a lecture on tone management. Mary E. Dubon, MD, FAAPMR from Spaulding Rehabilitation Medicine/Boston Children’s Hospital will moderate. Register today.

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize appropriate clinical management strategies and apply these techniques and knowledge into their practice.
• Assess the current state of their knowledge specific to the activity topic and identify knowledge gaps in which additional study is needed.
• Develop a strategy to closing the identified knowledge gaps using resources provided as references within the activity.

View previous recordings here.

2021 MIPS: What You Need to Know to Avoid a Penalty

Wednesday, March 3 at 6 pm (CT)

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updates the Quality Payment Program annually via the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rule. Eligible clinicians either report using an Alternative Payment Model or the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Most physiatrists will be reporting under MIPS, which will impact their future Medicare reimbursements.

AAPM&R will host a MIPS webinar on Wednesday, March 3 at 6 pm (CT) to review the new 2021 reporting requirements and explain how you can improve your score within each of the four performance categories:

• Quality
• Improvement Activities
• Promoting Interoperability
• Cost

Positive or negative payment adjustments based on a provider’s performance score will be a maximum 9% for the 2021 performance year and 2023 payments.

We’ll go over how to identify appropriate quality measures and improvement activities for your physiatry practice and share strategies to monitor costs and meet promoting interoperability components.

Register today to join us on March 3.

AAPM&R is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. AAPM&R designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

AAPM&R Advocacy: Advancing PM&R on Capitol Hill and Beyond

Thursday, March 4, at 7 pm (CT)

Register today to join us for a webinar hosted by AAPM&R's advocacy committees on March 4. All members are welcome.

We will go over the political highlights of the 2020 election and how it will affect AAPM&R’s state and federal advocacy goals in 2021. This session will also highlight some of the most important issues from 2020, their successes and what is still needed. Such issues include physician reimbursement, scope of practice issues, reducing physiatry burden and practice management during the public health emergency.

The advocacy committees look forward to receiving input from AAPM&R membership during this session on our ongoing and upcoming advocacy priorities, including physician reimbursement, telehealth, scope of practice, COVID-19 and post-acute COVID syndrome, social determinants of health and Medicaid expansion.

Panelists

• Peter Thomas, JD, of Powers Law
• Nneka L. Ifejika, MD, MPH, FAAPMR, Health Policy & Legislation Committee Chair
• Matthew J. Grierson, MD, FAAPMR, Reimbursement and Policy Review Committee Chair
• Richard G. Chang, MD, MPH, FAAPMR, State Advocacy Committee Chair

Register today to join the conversation. Thank you for being #PMRAdvocates!