Treatment Algorithms
Before a RFA is approved, CMS requires patients to undergo this procedure type at this frequency with at least 80% pain relief.
What are two diagnostic medial branch blocks?
Note: NGS LCD L38841 allows for either a diagnostic or therapeutic injection.
DxTx recently achieved this clinical milestone across all of its affiliates.
What is One Million Patient Visits?
This software enables prescribers and pharmacists to access data to check population-level drug use trends and monitor prescribing practices of practitioners.
What is the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)?
This is the term for how patients perceive your practice’s personality and values.
What is your brand?
In GAE, embolic agents are typically delivered through this type of catheter, which allows for precise navigation into small arterial branches.
What is a microcatheter?
Before considering the MILD procedure, patients must have this spinal condition confirmed by imaging.
What is lumbar spinal stenosis with ligamentum flavum hypertrophy?
Dr Andrea Trescot and Dr John Prunskis of the DxTx Executive Medical Advisory Board co-authored this influential federal report on pain treatment.
What is the HHS Pain Management Best Practices Report?
This type of care team, involving physicians, psychologists, physical therapists, and others, is recommended for effective pain management.
What is an interdisciplinary team?
Regular posting and engagement on this type of platform builds trust and visibility.
What is social media?
This hip condition that includes inflammation of a major fluid-filled sac, is treated with rest, ice, stretching and oral inflammatory medicines initially before surgery consideration.
What is Trochanteric Bursitis (M70.61/2)?
To confirm the SI joint as the pain source, Medicare requires diagnostic imaging of these three (3) areas.
What are imaging of SI Joint, Pelvis and Lumbar Spine?
DxTx Pain & Spine was founded to reduce reliance on these two common but often overused pain management strategies.
What are opioids and surgery?
This is commonly used to limit motion, support healing, and reduce pain in conditions like osteoarthritis or spinal disorders.
What is back brace (DME)?
Only 34% of physicians provide this to their referring physician, making clinicians who do this standout.
What is patient outcome update to the referring physician?
This term describes the process of reducing blood flow to inflamed tissues to relieve pain, the core mechanism of both GAE and HAE.
What is embolization?
This Advanced Procedure (APx) treatment is typically used for chronic radiculopathy unresponsive to conservative and interventional treatments.
What is spinal cord stimulation (SCS)?
These are the four pillars of values in which all of DxTx upholds to.
What Ethical, Hungry, Smart and Humble?
This classifies patients into low, medium, and high-risk to help inform medication-based treatments and frequency of urine toxicology testing.
What is an opioid risk tool (ORT)?
Clinicians that consistently do this after a new patient appointment report up to 20-30% increase in repeat referrals according to national statistics.
What is send thank you note to referring clinician?
Most patients report this percentage range of pain reduction within 3 months of GAE.
What is 50–75%?
This level of E/M coding requires documentation of moderate complexity medical decision making (MDM), often involving prescription drug management, review of multiple data sources, or management of a chronic condition with exacerbation.
What is Level 4 (99214)?
These members of the Executive Medical Advisory Board review the clinical performance, quality and outcomes as part of their board role.
Who are Dr John Prunskis, Dr Andrea Trescot, Dr Ramis Gheith, Dr Sheel Patel?
The seven (7) common classes of pain management medications.
What are acetaminophen, NSAIDs, anticonvulsants (anti-seizure), antidepressants, musculoskeletal agents, anxiolytics, and opioids?
Physicians are 5x more likely to increase their referral numbers compared to those who do not engage in this activity.
What is self-promotion (actively market themselves)?
In long-term follow-up, this is the most common reason for recurrence of symptoms after GAE.
What is revascularization or collateral vessel formation?