Pain Management Billing

Monday, February 11, 2008

Pain management or pain medicine is about getting relief from physical pain. There are two basic types of pain, acute and chronic. The patients for acute pain often have a reversible cause while chronic pain is more difficult and takes longer to be diagnosed and reverse. What are the different treatments given for pain and how are these drugs billed? Pain management practitioners come from all fields of medicine. The pain fellowship trained physicians can be anesthesiologists, neurologists, physiatrists or psychiatrists. Treatments include, prescriptions like,

• Analgesics
• Narcotics
• NSAIDs
• Pain modifiers
• Tricyclic antidepressants
• Anticonvulsants
• Steroids
• Trigger point injections
• Neurolytic blocks
• Spine stimulators
• Intrathecal drug delivery system implant
• Interventional procedures,
• Physical therapy
• Physical exercise
• Application of ice/heat
• Psychological measures
• Biofeedback
• Cognitive Therapy

What are the properties that a pain management billing company must have? Well they include, good coding experience, and being able to support the long term and short term aspects of the patient's pain management system. Most billing for chronic pain cases will involve claims for pain relief drugs. Some points to remember include, that the Medicare coverage vary according to State. Pain management reimbursement policies are carrier-specific and practices should review local medical review policy for each type of procedure.

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