208VP0014X — Interventional Pain Medicine Physician

Grouping

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians

Classification

Pain Medicine

Specialization

Interventional Pain Medicine

Section

Individual

Definition

Interventional Pain Medicine is the discipline of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of pain and related disorders principally with the application of interventional techniques in managing subacute, chronic, persistent, and intractable pain, independently or in conjunction with other modalities of treatment.

NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.

Other codes under Pain Medicine

These are the codes a mis-selection most often lands on, because they share a classification and differ only by specialisation.

• 208VP0000XPain Medicine