What are the Most vs Least Saturated Cities for Pain...

[drusso]

It seems that West Coast cities are packed to the gills, but I know at least one Pain Baller in Fresno bringing in $1M...

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[lobelsteve]

Canton GA.

Alliance Spine. 5
Pinnacle Ortho. 2
Resurgens Ortho 2
Summit Pain. 4
North Ga Pain 3
Northside Pain/Anes. 5
Medical Assoc-1 ( this guy)
Chiro clinics with pain 3

Small suburb 40 mi N of Atlanta.

 

[callmeanesthesia]

Central Valley is much less impacted than the coast (and less desirable to live - very hot in summer, lots of poverty/Medicaid, drug abuse).

 

[drusso]

Central Valley is much less impacted than the coast (and less desirable to live - very hot in summer, lots of poverty/Medicaid, drug abuse).

I'm a native.

 

[Private_MD]

Canton GA.

Alliance Spine. 5
Pinnacle Ortho. 2
Resurgens Ortho 2
Summit Pain. 4
North Ga Pain 3
Northside Pain/Anes. 5
Medical Assoc-1 ( this guy)
Chiro clinics with pain 3

Small suburb 40 mi N of Atlanta.

how does a chiro own 3 pain clinics? does he/she hire docs?

 

[jsaul]

Canton GA.

Alliance Spine. 5
Pinnacle Ortho. 2
Resurgens Ortho 2
Summit Pain. 4
North Ga Pain 3
Northside Pain/Anes. 5
Medical Assoc-1 ( this guy)
Chiro clinics with pain 3

Small suburb 40 mi N of Atlanta.

what do you think of alliance spine? i heard they made out pretty well when a private equity bought them out

 

[lobelsteve]

what do you think of alliance spine? i heard they made out pretty well when a private equity bought them out

Some nice docs. But all about the Benjamins from mgmt standpoint. Think money machine, not caring.

 

[NJPAIN]

Some nice docs. But all about the Benjamins from mgmt standpoint. Think money machine, not caring.

Sadly, caring is a thing of the past. It is all about dead presidents and statesmen in the overwhelming majority of practices.

 

[DoYouEvenLiftBro]

Some nice docs. But all about the Benjamins from mgmt standpoint. Think money machine, not caring.

Was told, they have to do 150-200 procedures a month in the ASC

 

[joshmir]

A couple other generalizations that hold true:

- great weather, definitely saturated with pain docs

- any city that has a lot of ethnic diversity (Ie including those of Asian descent, Persian, etc) seems to be saturated with pain docs

- states that have Medicaid plans that reimburse well for pain are relatively saturated

CA about to get worse with NP independence

 

[Peterluger]

A couple other generalizations that hold true:

- great weather, definitely saturated with pain docs

- any city that has a lot of ethnic diversity (Ie including those of Asian descent, Persian, etc) seems to be saturated with pain docs

- states that have Medicaid plans that reimburse well for pain are relatively saturated

CA about to get worse with NP independence

Lol i wouldnt exactly call Persian, Russian or Armenian “diverse”. That’s all just random groups of Caucasian....

 

[lobelsteve]

Lol i wouldnt exactly call Persian, Russian or Armenian “diverse”. That’s all just random groups of Caucasian....

Racist comment. Just like Grenadians, Ethiopians, and AA born and raised in the ATL are all the same....

 

[Pain Applicant1]

Lol i wouldnt exactly call Persian, Russian or Armenian “diverse”. That’s all just random groups of Caucasian....

Foolish and ignorant comment

Ethnicity = the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition

Persian/Russian/Armenia = ethnic diversity

 

[Peterluger]

Point taken

 

[joshmir]

While we are gently tiptoe-ing around stereotypes...

I’ve also wondered if a high concentration of patients that are indirectly religiously opposed to pain pills (Ie possibly Mormons, who can be opposed to caffeine, or devotees of Islam, who mostly shun alcohol) results in more patients amenable to procedures. I know of a couple of Naturopaths in Utah killing it with regenerative medicine.