OPOS supercharges primary care and pain specialists with the tools to care for patients who receive chronic opioid therapy as part of a long term multimodal chronic pain treatment plan.
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Patients have limited access to chronic pain treatment resources. Access is critical to living independently, being productive and maintaining quality of life.
Managing chronic pain patients can contribute to burnout. Medically complex patients in a high risk regulatory environment are challenging.
Pain Specialists don't have the capacity for long term chronic care management. Most pain physicians focus on interventional pain management.
We provide award winning patient monitoring and opioid prescriber compliance solutions to support primary care and pain specialty providers in all practice settings. Our range of monitoring, treatment and education services provide an end-to-end chronic pain management controlled substance solution that reduces prescribers risk, contains liability, improves patient outcomes and increases practice revenue. Patients benefit from more personalized chronic pain management with improved access to care. OPOS ensures that providers meet the highest standards of chronic pain clinical care management consistent with state medical board, CDC and DEA guidelines and regulations.
Maximizing patient outcomes and ensuring physician compliance. OPOS Foresight ensures that opioid prescribers have documented evidence of their adherence to CDC, state and medical board guidelines and regulations as well as patient functional benefit.
Learn moreFor patients, OPOS telepain.MD provides direct access to chronic pain specialty services including board certified pain specialists and a comprehensive pain education program. For physicians, OPOS telepain.MD delivers a pain specialist to your group to provide education to patients receiving chronic opioid therapy. Expand your practice and improve care, reduce risk and grow revenue.
Learn moreIntuitive understanding. OPOS Insight is your clinical decision support partner. Ensure your patients are receiving functional benefit from chronic opioid therapy as part of a well managed multimodal chronic pain treatment plan. Optimize patient outcomes and identify individual and pooled patient, prescriber and practice risk.
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"I thought I really understood the complexities of chronic pain. After all, I have been living with it for over 20 years and have read everything on the subject. Did I have a lot to learn! Having a pain doctor teach me about different aspects of chronic pain each month has really improved my life. I really look forward to our appointments every month."
“While we selected OPOS for risk management and regulatory compliance, we were amazed at the increase in patient engagement to their treatment plans. Our chronic pain patients needed more resources and now we are well aligned better deliver the care that patients deserve. Our patients are taking a more active role in managing their pain.”
No, you do not refer your patients to OPOS. We work with provider organizations and providers that utilize chronic opioid therapy as part of a multimodal treatment plan for their chronic pain patients. We bring board certified pain specialists to support providers through the OPOS platform. We work with you to ensure regulatory compliance and improve patient outcomes through functional optimization and reduce risk through enhanced regulatory compliance.
Adherence to opioid prescribing state and federal guidelines and regulations is complex, time consuming and requires training and experience. Prescribing guidelines and regulatory requirements change on a regular basis. The result is increasing time burdens on the provider, increased administrative processes, and the constant threat of medical board and/or DEA accusations. Managing this risk can take a lot of time with little or no remuneration. With recent regulatory changes, many providers have decided it is easier to not write opioid prescriptions any longer. This is creating an access problem for chronic pain patients that need pain management for adequate function, independence and quality of life. OPOS mitigates prescribing risk, aligns provider time with income and increases in practice capacity. In our experience, while some providers have decided to no longer write opioid prescriptions, it is reflective of their risk, liability and hassle. OPOS solves this rather than a judgement of the relative value of opioid therapy.
Unfortunately there are not many alternatives for patients whose provider no longer wants to prescribe opioid medications. Many of the six thousand pain specialists in the United States are interventionists and will not assume long-term opioid prescribing for patients that need opioid medication management. For the millions of patients who have a legitimate need for opioid therapy, losing access to their medications has become a reality due to the intense pressure facing clinicians to sharply cut back on prescribing and dispensing opioid medications. Patients who have relied on legitimately prescribed opioid medications to work, care for their families, attend school, and participate in social events are now faced with the possibility of losing their functional ability and potentially turning to street drugs for their pain relief. The effects of this are all too clear in the number of accidental overdoses attributed to street drugs, with fentanyl being the number one cause of overdose deaths.
Chronic pain is a complex problem that can have effects on our physical and mental well-being and affects one in three adults in the United States. Chronic Opioid Therapy (COT) is one tool that healthcare providers help patients manage their pain and refers to the daily use of opioids such as morphine, oxycodone, hydrocodone, fentanyl, etc. for managing chronic pain that lasts more than 3 months. It is typically used for conditions such as chronic back or neck pain, osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia, or cancer-related pain. These medications should always be initiated, monitored, and discontinued by a qualified healthcare professional due to the potential for addiction, dependence, and other adverse side effects associated with opioid use.
Chronic opioid therapy has the potential to provide significant benefits for patients who experience chronic pain. Studies have shown that reduced pain related to opioid medications may improve a person’s quality of life, improve mood and emotional well-being, and enable patients to engage in daily activities such as going to work or participating in social gatherings. However, it is important to note that the benefits of chronic opioid therapy must be weighed against the potential risks and side effects. Only you and your healthcare provider are able to make this determination.
As with all medications if not taken as prescribed, there are several potential risks associated with chronic opioid therapy. Some of these risks include opioid dependence, addiction, or tolerance and respiratory depression. Additionally, some people experience adverse side effects as a result of long-term opioid use. Constipation, nausea, vomiting, dry mouth, drowsiness, confusion, and sedation are all potential side-effects that should be discussed with your healthcare provider if they occur.
We want to ensure that you have continued access to medications and treatments that you rely on for your quality of life. This program will meet the requirements and recommendations for the use of pain medication that were created by your state’s medical board and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Studies have shown that education delivered in conjunction with pain management treatment can be effective in reducing pain intensity and related disability in chronic pain in adults.The OPOS Pain Program delivers an educational curriculum designed to meet the specific needs of chronic pain patients and discusses topics such as the evidence for opioids, risks and benefits of opioid medications, the relationship between pain, opioids, and sleep, treatment alternatives, and the opioid epidemic, just to name a few. Our team of pain specialists partner with your primary care or pain management healthcare professionals to provide these patient-centered educational sessions tailored to meet your needs.
