I think it depends on what you hope to achieve by attending such a conference and how current the information is. The organization apparently is a commercial entity that is promoting and sponsoring these mini-meetings. While some of the commercial-for-profit meetings may be excellent, they do not fall into those recommended in the algosresearch conference list due to their commercial nature and lack of university or pain organization sponsorship.
The conference appears to be aimed at administrators more than physicians, especially those on the verge of establishing pain units. It would be interesting to know if will be discussed the fact that ASC overhead, even if the ASC is solely owned by a pain physician, will chew up any excess profits vs simply doing the procedures in your own office for Medicare, Anthem, Wellpoint, and possibly some Aetna plans. Pain medicine is rapidly undergoing a complete paradigm shift from ASC to office based practice due to changing insurance reimbursement patterns, and more insurance carriers are expected to parrot the reimbursement schemes of the above insurers. Performing procedures in hospitals for the above insurance groups is cutting your physician reimbursement by 2/3. The old financial model of pain medicine care used the hospital or ASC as a base of operations for procedures, but this is now a questionable concept.
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