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anyone going to the course in Pittsburgh this weekend?
Peripheral Stim course in Pittsburgh
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didn't even know about it. Do you have a link or website to check out?
Who is putting it on?
Who is putting it on?
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Thanks but that only brought up this thread and an expired link on the indiana pain society website.
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Those swine! They never had a website for this conference and sent out notices only by email, then took down their link.
I placed a link in the IPS conference listings today to a copy from the email sent to me.
You may access it directly at:
http://www.indianapainsociety.org/fileuploads/Conference Files/PS.pdf
The phone number and email link to contact the conference organizer is on the last page of the link. Given the strange nature of the advertisement of this conference by email only, I would definitely call before planning to attend....
I placed a link in the IPS conference listings today to a copy from the email sent to me.
You may access it directly at:
http://www.indianapainsociety.org/fileuploads/Conference Files/PS.pdf
The phone number and email link to contact the conference organizer is on the last page of the link. Given the strange nature of the advertisement of this conference by email only, I would definitely call before planning to attend....
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Are any of you getting paid for peripheral nerve field stim, in particular GON stim?
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I was at that course last year. Yesh is a good guy. Private practice guy who does pretty well in the Pittsburgh area. Overall the course is run by Yesh and a couple of his partners who have been doing the periph stim and implants for years.
While I have not done any peripheral stim, they claim to have been getting paid. The key was to bill it as a peripheral NERVE stim and not field stim. Even their field stim in the low back, they were billing as a NERVE stim of whatever nerve happened to be in that area.
Overall, the stim implantation was a little more surgery than I was comfortable with. If you do a occipital nerve stim (which appears to be the most useful by the way) you have to place the battery towards the shoulder or tunnel all the way down to the SCS site. The ilioinguinal implant is also a bit more surgery than I am comfortable with as an anesthesiologist.
While I have not done any peripheral stim, they claim to have been getting paid. The key was to bill it as a peripheral NERVE stim and not field stim. Even their field stim in the low back, they were billing as a NERVE stim of whatever nerve happened to be in that area.
Overall, the stim implantation was a little more surgery than I was comfortable with. If you do a occipital nerve stim (which appears to be the most useful by the way) you have to place the battery towards the shoulder or tunnel all the way down to the SCS site. The ilioinguinal implant is also a bit more surgery than I am comfortable with as an anesthesiologist.
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No payors in my area. None. zilch.
There was one pain doc that was doing occ. nerve stim, at the nearby medical center. went from 4-5 a year to zero the last 2 years.
