Recently I became aware of QID 477 multimodal pain management (also known as MS-DRG 744). It is a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) focusing on Multimodal Pain Management,  requiring clinicians to use multimodal pain management for patients 18+ undergoing selected gynecological surgical procedures.

It mandates using two or more non-opioid medications or techniques with different mechanisms, such as NSAIDs, acetaminophen, or regional anesthesia, to improve pain control while minimizing opioid reliance. 

But there are other non-opioid techniques that are also effective for pain management like therapeutic music!

When facilities use two or more non-opioid medications or techniques, they get a significant increase in reimbursement.

However, the medical record must explicitly prove that the patient possessed a legitimate, actively treated secondary condition (such as acute kidney injury, severe hemorrhage, or uncontrolled diabetes) alongside their primary reproductive surgery. 

I am on a mission to make Surgical Serenity Solutions’s therapeutic playlists a powerful and OBVIOUS choice for satisfying the requirements of QID 477 multimodal pain management mandate.

If you are an anesthesiologist, would you be interested in applying our music medicine as a non-opioid pain management technique?

Here’s a link to some research showing the effectiveness of music for pain management.

Here’s a link to our Hospital Starter Kit

Please leave a comment with your thoughts.