Abstract
An inconspicuous announcement signaled the successful and unobtrusive end to a long and relentless struggle of the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) to define the field of Pain Medicine. The article in the ASA Newsletter [1] stated: “In an April notice to local Medicare carriers, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) instructed them to obtain the latest changes to the list of Provider Taxonomy Codes. The codes to be used by pain medicine specialists have not changed, and there are no payment implications here, but it is worth noting the semantic change and the definition of “Pain Medicine” newly incorporated in the Provider Taxonomy Code list” The article goes on to quote AAPM's definition …
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