3-day Virtual Seminar

Detecting Drug seeking behavior and Fraud in Chronic Pain Patients, using a questionnaire from Johns Hopkins Hospital Doctors

Overview

Will instruct attendees on use of a questionnaire available over the Internet, which can predict the presence of abnormal medical testing with 95% accuracy, and predict who will not have medical abnormalities with 85%-100% accuracy. 

Why you should Attend

Physicians are constantly concerned about prescribing narcotics, and coming under scrutiny by regulatory agencies like the DEA, and state medical association. Patients also try to get narcotics from doctors using all sorts of methods. On the other side4 of this,  patients not getting well are often called as “fraudulent” when in fact they are misdiagnosed 40%-80% of the time.

This lecture will explain methods used by Johns Hoipkins Hospital to detect drug seeking behavior, and protect a physician from legal issues. This questionnaire can also be used to justify additional medical testing by documenting patients have a valid complaints of pain. This questionnaire was developed by Johns Hopkins Hospital doctors, and has always has been admitted as evidence in 9 states, in over 30 cases. It takes only 5 minutes of secretarial time to administer over the Internet. 

Areas Covered in the Session

• Questionnaire from Johns Hopkins Hospital doctors takes only 5 minutes of staff time to administer over the Internet. And results protect physicians from drug seeking patients. It identifies who has a valid complaint of pain, and who will need additional testing and procedures foe insurance pre-authorization.  

Who Will Benefit

• Office Managers of Doctors Offices
  
• Doctors