Mission

The American Clinical Magnetoencephalography Society, Inc. (ACMEGS) was founded as a non-profit corporation in Spring 2006 in Massachusetts by clinicians using magnetoencephalography for patient care.  We currently are a 501c(6) organization that allows the society to educate private and United States government policymakers about reimbursement issues and appropriate patient care standards. ACMEGS complements, other national and international organizations, such as the International Society for the Advancement of Clinical MEG.

News

July 2008: CMS Proposes 2009 Changes in MEG Reimbursement

July 2008: Please RENEW your membership for 2008. Thank you!

August 2008: Michael Longacre accepts the position of Executive Director of ACMEGS

November, 2008: New Membership Fee Structure

New Events

Thank you all members who make our Annual Meeting a bit success:

Clinical and Economic Workshop, Fall 2008

AMERICAN CLINICAL MEG SOCIETY

Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Massachusetts General Hospital
Building 149, 13th Street

Charlestown, MA

Click HERE to REGISTER

For further information, please contact Stacey Ladieu: sladieu@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

Directions:  http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/martinos/contact/directions.php

Accomodations:

Constitution Inn, Charlestown MA

www.constitutioninn.org

(617) 241-8400

6 - 7 November 2008  

Preliminary Agenda:

Presidential Address 15 minutes
  • Welcome
  • Current Membership
  • Vision for 2008/9 and beyond
      -New Executive Director
      -ACMEGS task-force groups and new board members

Clinical Research (Moderated by Steven Stufflebeam)
  • Scientific Lecture: Jeffery Lewine, Ph.D. Writing Clinical MEG Papers to Evaluate Outcomes
  • New Scientific Applications of MEG:  ISACM 2009, Athens Annoucement

Lunch 60 minutes

Business Meeting (Moderator: Michael Funke)
    • ACMEGS Mission& Benefit Statements
    • Discuss Membership Fee Structure Possibiliites
    • Location and Topics for Annual Meeting, 2009

Towards Clinical Standards and Certification (Moderator Anto Bagic)
   • Necessity, Process, Issues and Outlook 60 minutes
   • Forming of ACMEG task-force groups 30 minutes

Dinner ~6pm

John-Gates-Lecture: Speaker: Robert Knowlton, M.D.

MEG Economics – Bootcamp 2008 (Moderated: Michael Longacre)
   • Medicare Update 2009 15 minutes
   • National MEG Services Analysis 15 minutes
   • Private Reimbursement Strategies Roundtable 60 minutes
   • ACMEGS Evaluation Projects 45 minutes
Open Discussion

Adjourn Noon

Prior Meetings

We wish to thank all the participants who made this a very successful and useful conference!  A list of the names of participants will follow shortly.

The ACMEGS is proud to annouce:

Clinical and Economic Workshop, Summer 2007

AMERICAN CLINICAL MEG SOCIETY

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

12 - 13 July 2007   Pittsburgh, PA

Meeting Address

BST South - S123 – on the 1st Floor
3500 Terrace Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

MAP of conference location

Clinical MEG FInance Workshop July 12, 13 open to all ACMEG Members in Pittsburgh, PA.  Please contact Anto Bagic for information about the meeting site.  Michael Funke for more information about the agenda.  Please check back to this website for updated information, including the agenda of the meeting.

Hotel space will be available for a reduced rate across the street from the Workshop site:

Wyndham Hotel,

3454 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Reservations at: 412-683-2040, Ask for Reservations

Date: July 11, 12, 13. Group: “American Clinical MEG Society”

(Rooms: $99 + Taxes; Rooms will be held until June 19)

Tentative Agenda:

July 12

9:00 am – 10:30 am

Arrival / Breakfast Reception (Provided)

10:30-10:50

I. ACMEGS Presidential Address

1. Welcome

2. Current Membership

3. Plans for 2007 and beyond

             

11 am-12:15pm

II. Clinical Review of Existing Studies             

(Moderator: Jeff Lewine)

1. Existing Clinical Studies

2. What studies are Needed

3. Improving Grants for Clinical MEG

Roundtable:  What Future Directions Steps Should MEG Community Pursue?

12:15 - 1:30 pm Lunch (Provided)

Open discussion about goals/priorities for the Society for 2007 and 2008

1:30 – 4:30 pm

III. Economics

A. Introduction and Prospective (Greg Barkley)

Historical Prospective of MEG Finances

Review of proper coding: Important items for billing personnel

CPT and REVENUE CODES    

MEDICAID (short overview of the federal regulations)       

  

B. Federal Insurance Carriers (Moderator: David Weil)

MEDICARE

Trends in utilization (importance of utilization statistics for Medicare)

Medicare methodology for determining reimbursement

MEDICARE: Recommendations and Important considerations for the future

TRICARE (short overview)

C. Open Discussion

Dinner (Provided) 5 pm - late

July 13

Morning 8-9am Breakfast (Provided)

9 am - 11:45 am

C. Commercial Insurance Carriers  (Moderator: Michael Longacre)

MEG reimbursement in the private sector

Reimbursement Boot Camp - Round table discussion

Noon-1pm:  Lunch (Provided)

1pm Meeting Adjurn

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Prior ACMEGS Events

• Founded April 25, 2006 as a non-profit corportation in the United States
• New Members enrolled at BioMag 2006 and AES 2006
• First Annual Membership Meeting: August 25 at 5pm, Biomag 2006, Vancouver, Canada
• Second Annual Business Meeting: AES Philadelphia, PA
• New Discussion Group For ACMEGS Members in March, 2007