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Undertreating a Patient's Pain Due to Addiction Concerns
How does the potential for drug diversion and addiction influence the way you care for patients with chronic pain?
In a recent Practice Notes blog, Physicians Practice assistant managing editor Erica Sprey noted that prescribing opioid medications for patients can be risky for both physicians and patients due to the potential for addiction and drug diversion.
Sprey’s blog, which includes some great tips for how to properly manage chronic pain patients, also raises an important question:
How does the potential for drug diversion and addiction influence the way you care for patients with chronic pain? For instance, do you ever undertreat a patient's pain because of addition concerns or concerns of drug diversion? Does it affect your treatment decision if you know a patient has a history of addiction?
Please share your thoughts in the comments section below. Your input could help another physician deal with this issue.
Facing a dilemma in practice? E-mail it to Aubrey.Westgate@ubm.com. We’ll share it without revealing your name, and we will ask other physician readers to weigh in.
Asset Protection and Financial Planning
December 6th 2021Asset protection attorney and regular Physicians Practice contributor Ike Devji and Anthony Williams, an investment advisor representative and the founder and president of Mosaic Financial Associates, discuss the impact of COVID-19 on high-earner assets and financial planning, impending tax changes, common asset protection and wealth preservation mistakes high earners make, and more.
How to reduce surprise billing in your practice
November 15th 2021Physicians Practice® spoke with Kristina Hutson, a product line developer at Availity, about surprise billing events in independent healthcare practices and what owners and administrators can do to reduce the likelihood of their occurrence.
