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	23rd Annual Meeting February 7-10, 2007 New Orleans, LA
Annual Meeting Highlights Supported by an educational grant from Merck & Co., Inc. © 2006 American Academy of Pain Medicine

Friday, February 9, 2007: 2:00 PM-3:30 PM
Evidence-Based Practice and Pay for Performance: The Current and Future Relationship Between Evidence-Based Medicine and Reimbursement
In practice, evidence-based medicine (EBM) is integrating the best available evidence with clinical expertise, patient values, and circumstances to improve patient outcomes. Medicare and other insurers are now actively developing practice guidelines based on published evidence. Only tests and treatments that are shown to be efficacious by EBM standards will be authorized and reimbursed. Physicians and hospitals will be “paid for performance (P4P).” In this symposium, we will define and explain EBM, evidence–based guidelines (versus literature reviews and expert opinion), evidenced-based practice (EBP), and P4P. We will show you how you can learn EBM and implement it relatively painlessly into your practice and how to search the literature quickly and easily. Physicians who understand EBM, EBP, practice guidelines, and P4P will be able to structure their practice in such a way that they may continue to experience fair profit while practicing the highest quality and most ethical medicine. We will use examples from clinical practice to show how this all works.
Submitter:	Jerome Schofferman
2:00 PM			How to Use EBM Efficiently in Your Practice Jerome Schofferman
2:20 PM			What to Do When the Evidence is Lacking? Alternatives to EBM Michael Moskowitz, MD
2:40 PM			From Procedure to Code to Reimbursement Eduardo Fraifeld, MD
3:00 PM			EBM and Interventional Practice: Some Common Examples Ray Baker, MD
3:20 PM			Summary and Q&A Session Jerome Schofferman

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