John Knudsen INTERVENTIONAL PAIN MANAGEMENT Reviews and Ratings

  About John Knudsen

  Explanation of Specialties

JOHN KNUDSEN is a specialist in INTERVENTIONAL PAIN MANAGEMENT. Other specialties include PAIN MANAGEMENT.

INTERVENTIONAL PAIN MANAGEMENT: If you’re in pain, interventional pain management can help you reduce pain and get you back to your life. Practitioners use cutting-edge treatment options along with holistic therapies. For example, a patient may receive nerve blocks or facet joint injections, along with reduced medication doses and physical therapy or chiropractic care to address the root of their pain issue. Practitioners look at the patient as a whole person, rather than just their pain. Because of this, interventional pain... (more information)

PAIN MANAGEMENT: A pain management specialist is a doctor who evaluates your pain and treats a wide range of pain problems. A pain management doctor treats sudden pain problems such as headaches and many types of long-lasting, chronic, pain such as low back pain. Patients are seen in a pain clinic and can go home the same day. Pain management doctors offer a mix of medication-based treatments and procedures, that can stop the pain at its source. The types of pain treated by a pain management doctor fall into thr... (more information)

  John Knudsen Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	100
Final MIPS Score without CPB	100
PI Category Score
IA Category Score	40
Quality Category Score	100

MIPS is an acronym for Merit-Based Incentive Payment System. Authorized by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reaouthorization Act of 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") developed MIPS to reward clinicians for the value of care they provide rather than the volume of care, quality over quantity. The MIPS final score determines a provider's Medicare Part B payment adjustments. MIPS also created a means for consumers to rank providers.

MIPS scores are calculated using four performance categories, quality, cost, improvement activities, and promotion of interoperability. Higher scores are better.: The highest final MIPS score is 100.

Documentation of Signed Opioid Treatment Agreement
Evaluation or Interview for Risk of Opioid Misuse
Opioid Therapy Follow-up Evaluation
Overuse of Imaging for the Evaluation of Primary Headache
Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention
Preventive Care and Screening: Unhealthy Alcohol Use: Screening & Brief Counseling
Consultation of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program	Yes

These are important measures that CMS tracks for each doctor. Not all doctors or medical professionals have data.

  Office Locations and Phone Numbers for John Knudsen

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 2 office locations for John Knudsen.

1515 E 32ND ST
JOPLIN, MO 64804
417-624-4277

2894 W WALNUT ST B
ROGERS, AR 72756
479-633-8742

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for John Knudsen

Doctors Groups:

John Knudsen is not associated with any doctor groups.

Medical Organizations:

Hospital: FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM - FREEMAN WEST

Hospital: MERCY HOSPITAL JOPLIN

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