Doctor blames health system, opioid crisis for Tucson pain clinic's closure [tucson.com]

Alicia Doktor 10/3/174:00 AM

The Integrative Pain Center of Arizona permanently closed Friday after 15 years in business — a move leaders say was fueled by a misguided health-system response to the opioid crisis.

The center’s recent financial setbacks could not be overcome in a system where U.S. health insurers are rewarding physicians for treating the symptoms of chronic pain rather than the root causes, center co-founder Dr. Bennet E. Davis said last week as he walked through his darkened north-side Tucson clinic.

Also, federal grant money to address issues of opioid misuse tend to focus on “downstream” treatment of symptoms, he said.

[For more on this story by Stephanie Innes, go to http://tucson.com/business/doc...3e-147ef73e9a0d.html]

Photor. Bennet Davis says the country’s insurance environment is not supportive of front-line innovations in treating the root cause of opioid misuse.

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