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Before Nevro, and not back. Shoulder blade area. Above topographic representation in cord that is defined.Maybe Dr. Baumann is just ahead of his time...
Nevro announces publication of 12-month data on high-frequency SCS for non-surgical refractory back pain - Spinal News International
Nevro Corporation has announced online publication of 12-month data from the SENZA-NSRBP randomised controlled trial (RCT) in Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine. These data show that high-frequency 10kHz spinal cord stimulation (SCS) therapy results in profound improvements in non-surgical...
How does that even get approved? I have to jump through hoops to get precert on clear-cut FBSS
I hate pointy shoes. I’m a 5’4” brown dude who wears the most comfortable shoes I can. When I was younger and was dating, I would “heighten” like I was Mikey from Seinfeld. Scrubs and flat shoes are my friends now. At my age, I could care less. Your 3 inch heels must get burdensome during the 5 a day trial/implants..
Agree. I can't tell you how many people got a scs (incorrectly placed) by other physicians notorious in my community for doing advanced interventions, explanted. All they needed was an rfa and are doing just fine. Frustrating.
As soon as they start slashing stim reimbursement, it will happen, which I’m sure is coming in the next 1-2 years
It is amazing that some physicians are do so greedy that they don’t try an epidural and a MBB before SCS.
You must be only getting the pro fee and doing them in a facility you don't own?
In a private office (non-ASC, non-HOPD)
63650x2 for a trial should be 4-5k Medicare, negligible trial lead costs.
Apparently you are correct. ~2k/lead. I thought it was the ~$500 that is the pro fee. Shows how closely I follow the reimbursement for everything... I just try to do the right thing as long as Im not losing money (then I just won't offer the treatment)
Funny how he's doing time for 67k in kickbacks when I can post dozens of articles of 7-8figure kickback cases that led to nobody going to jail because the people involved weren't doctors, rather just suits taking kickbacks and telling the doctors what to do.Associate Medical Director of Baltimore County, Maryland Pain Management Practice Sentenced to Federal Prison for Accepting Kick-Backs
U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Howard Hoffberg, M.D., age 65, of Reisterstown, Maryland, today, to eight months in federal prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback statutes, in connection with a scheme to accept...www.justice.gov
According to the plea agreement, because of the limited number of cancer patients experiencing breakthrough pain who fit the FDA-approved criteria, Insys devised an illegal kickback and bribery scheme to induce Hoffberg and others to prescribe Subsys off-label for conditions other than breakthrough pain in cancer patients. In order to conceal and disguise that kickbacks and bribes were being paid to Hoffberg to prescribe Subsys, Insys falsely designated the payments to Hoffberg as “honoraria” for purportedly providing educational programs about Subsys (the “Speakers Bureau Program”). Hoffberg admitted that his participation in the Speakers Bureau Program was a sham. Hoffberg often made these presentations at high-end restaurants, and to staff at the Practice and/or to persons who could not even prescribe controlled substances. Hoffberg knew that these presentations were not designed to promote any bona fide educational initiative about Subsys but rather were required to receive the honoraria.Associate Medical Director of Baltimore County, Maryland Pain Management Practice Sentenced to Federal Prison for Accepting Kick-Backs
U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Howard Hoffberg, M.D., age 65, of Reisterstown, Maryland, today, to eight months in federal prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback statutes, in connection with a scheme to accept...
