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Our Mission: To promote the development and practice of safe, high quality, cost-effective interventional techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of pain and related disorders, and
to ensure patient access to these interventions.
  
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WELCOME

The Washington Society of Interventional Pain Physicians is a state level organization of physicians who perform procedures to relieve or diagnose pain.

Our goals are modeled after national Society goals of ASIPP:

  • To preserve coverage for interventional pain management
  • To advance patient safety, cost effectiveness, and accountability
  • To provide state of the art interventional pain management services.
  • To communicate with legislators, patients, public, CMS, & third party payors.
  • To uphold high principles, policies, and practices.
  • To pursue excellence in education in interventional pain management.
  • To improve practice management.
  • To improve compliance.
  • To eliminate Fraud and Abuse.
  • To provide best possible interventional pain management

 
 


 Board Certification

Physicians specializing in spinal injections should have receive training and certification beyond basic specialization. The background of Interventional Pain Physicians may be from Anesthesiology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Radiology, Spinal Surgery or Neurology. Board certification is available for both Pain Management and now for Interventional Pain Management (example: ABIPP).
 

Interventional Pain Management DefinedBy NUCC
The discipline of Medicine devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of pain related disorders principally with the application of interventional techniques in managing subacute, chronic, persistant and intractable pain, independently or in conjunction with other modalaties of treatment.

Interventional pain procedures Defined by MedPAC 2001
Interventional pain management techniques are minimally invasive procedures, including percutaneous precision needle placement, with placement of drugs in targeted areas or ablation of targeted nerves and some surgical techniques, such as LASER or endoscopic diskectomy, intrathecal infusion pumps and spinal cord stimulators, for the diagnosis and management of chronic, persistent intractable pain.

Journals
Pain Physician Journal
is a bi-monthly journal, the official publication of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP).
Pain Physician is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal written by and directed to an audience of interventional pain physicians, clinicians and basic scientists with an interest in interventional pain management and pain medicine.
Pain Physician presents the latest studies, research, and information vital to those in the emerging specialty of interventional pain management – and critical to the people they serve.


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