Physician Assistant - Pain Management

Schedule

Daytime, with flexibility.

Responsibilities

• Attend ambulatory Pain Practice sessions.
• Assess adult and pediatric patients with acute and chronic pain problems.
• Perform and document complete histories and physical examinations, ordering of tests, and reviewing results.
• Obtain prior authorizations for prescriptions and procedures from insurance companies.
• Respond promptly to in-basket messages from patients.
• Participate in the management of acute and chronic pain problems identified during patient evaluations.
• Request appropriate specialty consultations.
• Respond to inpatient and outpatient pain consults.
• Assist pain management physicians with interventional procedures and coordinate pre-procedure medical care to ensure patients are optimized for planned procedures.
• Collect and correlate data for quality improvement initiatives and participate in interdisciplinary Pain Management CQI activities.