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Dear fellow
Pain Management Doctors:
The unavailability
of competent medical management of intractable pain is a growing
crisis in the United States, The aging of the population,
and the return of many thousands of permanently disabled and
severely injured soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan, combine
to form a grim picture in pain treatment.
The two
largest obstacles to the availability of legitimate and effective
pain treatment are 1) opiophobia and 2) physician fear and
discomfort with prescribing C- IIs because of the very real
regulatory and legal risks. Pain management physicians are
dedicated doctors who are not opiophobic. But high standards
and integrity do not protect us against the regulatory and
legal risks.
The Pain
Practice Liability Association provides a unique and powerful
solution to this situation. Membership provides all the benefits
below, which provide the maximum possible protection against
the risks of regulatory and/or criminal law that threaten
their careers daily.
It has
taken almost five years to create the Pain Practice Liability
Association. This web site provides all the necessary information.
The Standard of Care, Standard of Record-keeping, Professional
Advisory and Review Committee, electronic medical record-keeping,
the Attorney Defense Team, the umbrella PPLA Contract of Insurance
and all other pertinent facts are on this site. You can join
the association, get all the benefits of membership, and pay
for it, all on-line.
What the
PPLA has done is to directly confront the inherent risks,
as you can see on the site. Membership provides:
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Standards of care and record-keeping · The Professional
Advisory and Review Committee (P ARC) an 18 member "1,000
pound gorilla" of experts to review, truly at arm's length,
physician practices in managing pain as insurance against
opiophobic, pseudo "expert" opinions, purchased
for prosecutions.
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Highly competent and thoroughly experienced attorneys totally
expert in administrative, criminal, and appellate legal defense
of opioid-related legal cases.
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As an additional optional benefit, members can obtain full
Electronic Medical Record keeping, which provides all the
conveniences of a paperless office and electronic prescribing
and record-keeping.
. Lastly,
members can take advantage of $1,000,000 of legal defense
against regulatory or criminal prosecutions related to the
prescription of opioids. They simply need to opt in to coverage
by the PPLA's umbrella insurance policy, which provides up
to $1,000,000 in legal defense against regulator) or criminal
charges related to pain practice involving opioids.
Ultimately
the objective is to make legitimate pain care more available,
resolve the growing crisis of pain management unavailability,
dramatically raise the bar of pain management sophistication
and competency and safeguard the careers and lives of dedicated
Pain Management physicians. The focus of the Association is
to vastly improve both the quality and availability of pain
treatment, while allowing doctors complete peace of mind.
Sincerely
J. S.
Hochman MD
The Pain
Practice Liability Association is a for profit project in
association with the National Foundation for the Treatment
of Pain, a 501.c.3 not for profit organization.
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