State of Interventional Pain Medicine

Interventional orthopedics in pain medicine practice

Interventional pain physicians are in a unique place to take advantage of regenerative medicine technology to improve patient outcomes and decrease the invasiveness of orthopedic procedural care. However, that sea of change would take significant changes to the educational system similar to those established when interventional spine was first introduced as a subspecialty. The tenets of interve...

interventional pain management according to evidence-based medicine

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE Evidence-based Interventional Pain Medicine according to Clinical Diagnoses 13. Sacroiliac Joint Pain

The sacroiliac joint accounts for approximately 16% to 30% of cases of chronic mechanical low back pain. Pain originating in the sacroiliac joint is predominantly perceived in the gluteal region, although pain is often referred into the lower and upper lumbar region, groin, abdomen, and/ or lower limb(s). Because sacroiliac joint pain is difficult to distinguish from other forms of low back pai...

Interventional Pain Management According to Evidence-Based Medicine

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) endeavors to apply the best available evidence gained from scientific methods to clinical decision making (1). It aims to assess the strength of the evidence based on both the risks and benefits of treatments and diagnostic tests. The quality of the evidence can be evaluated from the source type (mostly from meta-analyses and systematic reviews of doubleblind, plac...

Current issues in billing and coding in interventional pain medicine.

Interventional pain management is a dynamic field with changes occurring on a daily basis, not only with technology but also with regulations that have a substantial financial impact on practices. Regulations are imposed not only by the federal government and other regulatory agencies, and also by a multitude of other payors, state governments and medical boards. Documentation of medical necess...