Best Strategies to Protect Patients from Unnecessary SIJ Fusion?

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How are you approaching patients offered medically unnecessary SIJ fusion procedures?


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How are you approaching patients offered medically unnecessary SIJ fusion procedures?


If you see pointy shoes, run!

Look the proposed surgeon up on propublica and see if he is getting payed by the device manufacturer
 
How are you approaching patients offered medically unnecessary SIJ fusion procedures?

I just tell them about the last patient I saw who had that procedure. 🙂 Works every time.
 
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A new spine surgeon asked me for referrals for SI fusion, I said no, it did not work from my understanding.
 
Didn’t he make some outrageous comment about never having a failure with IO for SI issues? I’ll try to find it.
Yes something like all SI fusions are done by greedy ASC owners, then purports 100% success rate with intraosseous stem cells which I'm sure has higher margins
 
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