New York Society
of Interventional Pain Physicians
NYSIPP APC’s goals:
- To create an unbiased platform that improves access to evidence-based therapies in NY state through advocacy and policy.
- To create a repository of documents readily available for NYSIPP members for denial management.
Hemant Kalia, MD, Rochester
Chairman
Edward Rubin, MD, NYC
Board Member
Robert Tiso, MD, Syracuse
Board Member
Sam Nia, MD,
NYC
Board Member
Eugene Wang, MD, NYC
Board Member
Position Statements:
- NYSIPP Position Statement – Vertiflex – 2022
- NYSIPP Position Statement – mild® – 2024
- NYSIPP Position Statement – PNS – 2024
- NYSIPP Position Statement – PVA – 2024
Sample Letters:
Minutes of Meetings
AETNA – LCD Coverage
Cigna – Basivertebral Nerve Ablation
- Cigna BVNA Policy Points of Discussion Minutes 09-13-2023
- Cigna Medical Coverage Policy – Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Procedures and Trigger Point Injections
- NASS Coverage Recommendations – Basivertebral Nerve Ablation
- NYSIPP Cigna BVN Letter
- SIS Letter
Fidelis meetings
- Fidelis/Centene epidural denials 05-16-2023
- Fidelis Zoom meeting 07-17-2025
- Fidelis Zoom meeting 10-14-2025
NGS Meetings
- Medicare/NGS – LCD clarification NGS Meeting Minutes 05-22-2023
- NGS – Curonix PNS NGS Meeting Minutes 08-22-2024
- Coding, billing NGS Meeting Minutes 07-24-2025
NYSIPP Advocacy and Policy Consortium
- Minutes from 12/06/2023
- Minutes from 1/25/2024
- Minutes from 7/15/2024
- Minutes from 12/9/2024
- Minutes from 1/6/2025
- Minutes from 3/17/2025
- Minutes from 5/19/2025
- Minutes from 9/22/2025
Workers’ Compensation Meetings
P2P (Provider-to-Payor) Program
The goal of this program is to foster relationships with regional payors to address their specific local coverage determinant policies to cover evidence-based, FDA-approved therapies for interventional pain management.
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