Here are five things to know:
1. The OHA is expected to debate the issue at its Evidence-based Guidelines Subcommittee meeting today, Apr. 6, 2017.
2. HERC’s ruling takes coverage away from low-income, disabled patients depending on the Oregon Health Plan and other state health programs.
3. ASA’s Committee on Pain Medicine Chair Asokumar Buvanendran, MD, said, “As a physician anesthesiologist with a special focus on pain medicine, I feel very strongly that the review committee reverse its initial ruling, so all patients in Oregon can have the hope of a future without debilitating pain.”
4. Many physicians turn to spinal injections once lifestyle changes, medications and physical therapy fail to improve a patient’s condition.
5. ASA believes spinal injections are effective in well-selected patients in the short- and long-term.
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