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Vol. XIII, No. 6Archive > June, 2012

How to Equip Your Facility for Pain Management

It's not that hard to outfit that empty room for this hot specialty.

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

Pain managementIf you have an empty room and holes in your schedule, you might consider filling them both with pain management cases. For a relatively low startup cost — plan to spend around $200,000 on a new C-arm and an adjustable fluoroscopy table — you can add pain to your list of surgical services, the in-demand specialty with a profile that's hard not to like: quick cases, fast turnaround (no blood or bodily fluids!) and, despite recent cuts in reimbursement, good profit potential.

 
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