Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine > Part VII. Pain, Administration and the Law > A. Pain Practice > Chapter 81. Setting Up a Pain Treatment Facility Steven D. Waldman

Setting Up a Pain Treatment Facility: Introduction

"Over the past several years there has been considerable interest in expanding the role of the pain management specialist as an integral member of the health care team. This interest has been stimulated in part by the increased availability of health care professionals with a special interest and advanced training in pain medicine and in part by the unprecedented economic pressures of our rapidly evolving health care system. These economic pressures have forced many pain management specialists to explore new avenues of revenue generation as well as to examine new strategies to help improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the care they provide...."