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Lee Cameron
315 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
Helen Beichel
1133 Park Place
Brooklyn, NY
Dental Visits LLC
(212) 697-0939
30 East 40th Street
New York, NY
The New York Health Purchasing Alliance
386 Park Avenue South
New York, NY
Grand Central Chiropractic Wellness Center
(212) 883-6100
48 E. 43rd Street
New York, NY
Sid Mukherjee
1633 Broadway
New York, NY
Anthony Shark
29 adrian avenue suite D-6
bronx, NY
TalkPower Inc.
(212) 684-1711
333 E. 23rd Street
New York, NY
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield
(212) 476-6767
11 W 42nd St
New York, NY
Consumer Health Services
(347) 886-5789
11 Penn Plaza
New York, NY
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Insurance Coverage For Pain Management

Based upon Marketdata's research and surveys of chronic pain programs, the single most critical problem facing chronic pain programs continues to be reimbursement and third party approval by insurers. A total of 42.5% of the total group stated that this was the number one issue. The second most important problem mentioned is that there are too many unqualified practitioners in this field, or an increase in the number of poorly trained practitioners.

Here are other issues that were mentioned:

  • pre-authorization for services

  • payor understanding of the importance of uninterrupted treatment, its impact on success

  • disagreement over use of narcotics/medications

  • unethical and fraudulent practices by insurance carriers

  •        Percentage of pain management patients that are covered by/pay by…

                                                         2003              2001                1999

    cash (out-of-pocket)                    2.9 %           2.2 %              5.2 %

    Medicare                                        33.8              27.0               40.4

    auto no-fault insurance                2.2                5.0                NA

    HMO/PPO plan                             22.5              23.7               21.8

    Medicaid                          &n...

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