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Everyone should have access to affordable, convenient, and effective assessment and pain management. The concepts for improving pain management in our society encompass three broad areas, education, policy, and communication. This is not to ignore reimbursement. However, because of the Federal and State involvement with Medicare and Medicaid, real changes in compensation for pain care reside in policy changes, and most of these are fundamentally with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a part of the Department of Health and Human Services. Since most insurance carriers model off of reimbursement rates and strategies from CMS, that seems to be the most logical place to start the wheels of change into motion.
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Gloth, F.M. (2011). Suggestions for Change: Education, Policy, and Communication. In: Gloth, F. (eds) Handbook of Pain Relief in Older Adults. Aging Medicine. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-618-4_14
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