Pain Management in Kansas City

More than 70 million Americans suffer from chronic pain and each year another 25 million have acute pain from injuries or surgery. The AdventHealth Pain Specialists understand pain and know that most pain can be greatly eased with proper pain management.

Comfort

• Our minimally invasive procedures mean less pain, risk and recovery time for our patients.
• Our experienced staff will monitor you through the entire procedure.
• Our relaxing, homelike atmosphere will keep you at ease.

Convenience

• We offer free parking right outside our front door.
• First-floor entrance allows easy and convenient access.

Compassion

• We treat you the way we know you would want to be treated: with kindness and compassion.

AdventHealth Pain Specialists accepts patient referrals from primary care physicians and specialists. We work with your physician in a team effort. Each new patient will have a comprehensive history and physical exam performed. Other tools such as pain scales, diagrams and skeletal models will be used to help us thoroughly understand your pain.

Scheduling Your Patient

It is our goal to make scheduling your patient a simple process. In order for us to most efficiently assist your patients, we request that you please fax the following information to us at Call913-676-7692. Download our referral form for your convenience.

• Face Sheet - demographics
• Copy of insurance card (front and back)
• Most recent physician notes
• Current medication list
• Report of any diagnostic studies (MRI, CT or Myelogram, EMG, x-ray, etc.)

Upon receiving your patient's information, we will contact them directly for scheduling. Please be sure to include your patient's contact information. We also pre-certify the patient's insurance for you.

Once we schedule your patient, we will fax a form to you detailing the date and time of the appointment.

Our team will follow up with you with a written report of your patient's treatment.

Patient Scheduling

Patients are seen by appointment only, Monday through Friday. Once we receive the referral from your physician, our scheduling team will call you to make an appointment. Please have your insurance information available. During the call, our staff will ask about your pain so that we can determine the adequate time required for your appointment.

You will be asked about:

• Type and location of pain
• Referring physician
• Primary care physician
• Insurance or payment method
• Claim mailing address
• X-ray films or MRI reports

In order to ensure that we prescribe safely and responsibly, we cannot guarantee assumption of medication management at the initial visit.

Your First Visit

For your initial visit, you will be asked to bring:

• A photo ID
• Your insurance card(s)
• Any x-rays, MRI, CT or myelogram films for CDs related to your pain
• A list of all medications you are currently taking, including the name, dosages (number of pills taken a day), milligrams and how long you have been taking the medications.

To save yourself time, please download and complete our Welcome Letter and Patient Assessment Form before coming to our office.

Questions?

Please contact us with any questions at Call913-676-2370. Our fax number is Call913-676-7692.

Delivering quality care to our patients is our central focus. We adapt and develop the most creative solutions to deliver quality pain medicine. In an ongoing effort to provide the highest quality in pain medicine administration, we have voluntarily adapted the American Society of Anesthesiology’s Quality Guidelines. These measures represent factors that are unique to pain medicine practice and have been proven to be associated with high quality delivery of care.

AdventHealth Pain Specialists uses advanced technologies that provide patients with more options for pain management. The most common procedures we offer include:

• Epidural steroid injection: injection of a potent anti-inflammatory medication in the epidural space.
• Diagnostic/therapeutic nerve block: injection of anesthetic agent at the pain site or nerve root.
• Trigger point injection: injection of steroid/anesthetic into contracted muscle fiber.
• Radio frequency nerve ablation: use of radio waves to destroy the nerve causing chronic pain.
• Spinal cord stimulator trials.