Expanding the Role of Mid-Levels in Pain...New Frontier or The Alamo?

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More lack of understanding from the ivory towers of how their ideas translate into the community setting.
 
This is exactly what many of us do currently. Utilize mid levels for minor follow ups. I don’t see anyone suggesting they be interventional on a widespread basis. It’s the CRNAs we need to watch out for
 
This is exactly what many of us do currently. Utilize mid levels for minor follow ups. I don’t see anyone suggesting they be interventional on a widespread basis. It’s the CRNAs we need to watch out for

No it is not that at all. It’s advocating a system where everything except for complex procedures and surgery is done by APP. This is trying to apply the clinical and business model of a truly unique institution that practices “destination medicine” to the rest of world.

CRNA, NP, PA … the end result is the same. It’s VERY simple, the more you let them do, the less need there is for a physician. You need to think about the long term impact of these decisions.
 
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How many pain docs you know have their clinics run by midlevels and spend all their time in the fluoro suite stuffing stimulators and hardware into every patient convinced to do it?

There was a practice shut down for many things including fraud… they also incentivized their midlevels to crank out volume and pack the surgery schedule
 
How many pain docs you know have their clinics run by midlevels and spend all their time in the fluoro suite stuffing stimulators and hardware into every patient convinced to do it?

There was a practice shut down for many things including fraud… they also incentivized their midlevels to crank out volume and pack the surgery schedule
I used to think this was the exception…
 
No it is not that at all. It’s advocating a system where everything except for complex procedures and surgery is done by APP. This is trying to apply the clinical and business model of a truly unique institution that practices “destination medicine” to the rest of world.

CRNA, NP, PA … the end result is the same. It’s VERY simple, the more you let them do, the less need there is for a physician. You need to think about the long term impact of these decisions.

 
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