Board Certified /Board Eligible Pain Medicine Physician

Pain Medicine Physician

Posterity Group LLC is a veteran owned, service-disabled small business, headquartered in Rockville, MD, that specializes in federal government contracting and staffing. We are tasked with staffing the Hershel "Woody" Williams VAMC and related CBOCs with Board Certified/Board Eligible Pain Medicine Physician. The physician is expected to do the following:

Services will be offered through a combination of in-person visits and virtual / telehealth appointments, in the outpatient and inpatient setting, within an interprofessional specialty care team that utilizes the Biopsychosocial Model of Pain Care and the VA Stepped Care Model of Pain Management.

Place of Performance:

• Hershel "Woody" Williams VAMC, 1540 Spring Valley Drive, Huntington, WV 25704,
• Charleston VA Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) 700 Technology Drive, South Charleston, WV 25309.

• Perform comprehensive medical and functional evaluations for veterans referred to the pain clinic, including history, physical examination, and review of diagnostic studies.
• Establish accurate pain diagnoses and comorbidities (e.g., substance use disorders, mental health issues) and, in collaboration with interdisciplinary team, develop individualized, integrated treatment plans that emphasize functional restoration and self-management.
• Provide inpatient chronic pain consultative services for veterans admitted to the hospital.
• Provide medication management for chronic pain conditions, focusing on polypharmacy reduction, opioid risk stratification, and utilizing non-opioid analgesics and adjuvant medications.
• Manage opioid medications and perform opioid medication adjustments including tapers as indicated and in compliance with current VA/DOD long-term opioid therapy clinical practice guidelines, and local VA policies.
• Orders, performs, reviews, and analyzes appropriate laboratory tests, imaging, and other diagnostic studies necessary to optimize the pain care plan.
• Follows up with veterans regarding results per VHA standards to discuss care plans, changes to therapy, and additional monitoring or testing requirements.
• Provide clinical collaboration with nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other members of the interdisciplinary team. Complete all required electronic health record documentation in accordance with VHA standards, including timely, accurate entries for pain management activities, therapeutic changes, recommendations, procedures, and patient check-out (such as diagnostic and procedure codes).
• Ensures compliance with national and local performance measures, including prompt health screenings and completion of clinical reminders for patients. Perform other clinical duties as indicated and assigned.
• Perform interventional pain care, including fluoroscopy and ultrasound-guided invasive procedures (e.g., epidural steroid injections, medial branch blocks, radiofrequency ablations, joint injections, spinal cord stimulator trials, intrathecal baclofen trials, intrathecal pump refills

Requirements:

• Shall have a current license to practice medicine in any state, territory, or commonwealth of the United States or the District of Columbia - full and unrestricted license
• Shall be board certified /board eligible in pain medicine or have demonstrable experience in pain management and opioid prescribing, have experience in providing scope of care as described herein and be currently certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA),
• Be currently certified in Basic Life Support (BLS) Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) or equivalency.
• Shall be technically proficient in the skills necessary to fulfill the government's requirements, including the ability to speak, understand, read and write English fluently.
• Shall provide documents upon request of the CO/COR to verify current and ongoing competency, skills, certification and/or licensure related to the provision of care, treatment and/or services performed.