Overview
Will instruct attendees on use of a questionnaire available over the Internet, which can predict the presence of abnormal medical testing with 95% accuracy, and predict who will not have medical abnormalities with 85%-100% accuracy.
Why you should Attend
Physicians are constantly concerned about prescribing narcotics, and coming under scrutiny by regulatory agencies like the DEA, and state medical association. Patients also try to get narcotics from doctors using all sorts of methods. On the other side4 of this, patients not getting well are often called as “fraudulent” when in fact they are misdiagnosed 40%-80% of the time.
This lecture will explain methods used by Johns Hoipkins Hospital to detect drug seeking behavior, and protect a physician from legal issues. This questionnaire can also be used to justify additional medical testing by documenting patients have a valid complaints of pain. This questionnaire was developed by Johns Hopkins Hospital doctors, and has always has been admitted as evidence in 9 states, in over 30 cases. It takes only 5 minutes of secretarial time to administer over the Internet.
Areas Covered in the Session
- Questionnaire from Johns Hopkins Hospital doctors takes only 5 minutes of staff time to administer over the Internet. And results protect physicians from drug seeking patients. It identifies who has a valid complaint of pain, and who will need additional testing and procedures foe insurance pre-authorization.
Who Will Benefit
- Office Managers of Doctors Offices
- Doctors
Speaker Profile
Nelson Hendler The instructor is a former assistant professor of neurosurgery and psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was past president of the American Academy of Pain Management, and the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Association of America. He has published 5 books, 33 medical text-book chapters, and 75 articles. He has been asked to testify on medical issues before the US Senate on three occasions. He has testified in 300 depositions and 75 trials in 10 states, for both the plaintiff and defense, and lectured at over 60 medical schools and hospitals in 10 countries, including KEMPORAN, the consortium of health care carriers in Japan, Al Kaharj Military Hospital in Saudi Arabia, at the invitation of the Minister of Health, and was the first honorary member of the Israeli Pain Society. He has also been on the board of directors of two multi-billion dollar public companies -a bank and an insurance company.
Instructor
Nelson Hendler