Pain is a single word with a thousand different meanings, as the sixth annual Summit on Balanced Pain Management made clear. So if policymakers want to tackle America’s pain problem, they should begin by embracing Read more…
Medicare beneficiaries with low back pain could soon have a new treatment option available: acupuncture.
from the Institute for Patient Access Two new publications make it clear: Patients in pain need access to integrative, comprehensive care. Newly adopted policies from the American Medical Association say that utilization management policies such as prior Read more…
from the Institute for Patient Access Difficult trade-offs have plagued arthritis patients for long enough. For years, some patients were torn between debilitating inflammation or treatment with potentially addictive opioids. Now, with opioid prescribing on Read more…
Earlier this month, the Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force held its third and last public meeting, voting to adopt its final draft recommendations for acute and chronic pain management. Read more.
from the Institute for Patient Access If you turn on the nightly news or open a daily paper, you’re likely to hear about the nation’s ongoing opioid abuse crisis. The overdose death tolls are staggering. Read more…
from the Institute for Patient Access “As we deal with the opioid crisis, we must keep in mind those Americans who are hurting.” These words, from Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) during a February Senate hearing, Read more…
Three years ago this month, as alarms about the over-prescription of opioid painkillers were sounding across the country, the federal government issued course-correcting guidelines for primary care doctors. Prescriptions have fallen notably since then, and the Trump administration is Read more…
from the Alliance for Patient Access What stands between patients and integrative, comprehensive pain management? It could be health plan design, according to a recent attitudinal survey by the Alliance for Balanced Pain Management. The survey polled more Read more…
from the Alliance for Patient Access The Food and Drug Administration has approved two generic versions of an innovative drug to treat opioid addiction, increasing available treatment options for Americans fighting addiction. The move underscores Read more…