Category: Pain Management Expert Witness
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Pain Management Expert Witness’ Testimony About Billing for Medical Examinations Admitted
This matter involves the Plaintiff insurers’ claim that Defendants unlawfully billed for medically unnecessary and illusory services, misrepresented the nature and extent of the services, and operated in violation of various laws specific to the healthcare and/or insurance sector. According to the Plaintiff, Titan Defendants agreed to refer patients to the Stein Defendants in exchange…
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Pain Management Expert Witness Found to Lack Expertise in the Drafting or Revision of CPT Codes
The Defendant, Laura Perryman, the founder and former CEO of Stimwave Technologies Incorporated and Stimwave LLC (together, “Stimwave”), was responsible for overseeing the design of the StimQ Peripheral Nerve Stimulation (“PNS”) System, a medical device (the “Device”) aimed at treating chronic pain by using electrical currents to target peripheral nerves, that is, the nerves outside…
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Court Finds Pain Management Expert Witness’ Medical Causation Testimony Admissible Despite Arguments Questioning the Reliability of Differential Diagnosis Employed By Him
This case involved a lawsuit filed by Sharon B. Ikerd against Bobby Dillon, L Dillon Tree Harvesting, LLC, and Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Insurance Company after being involved in an automobile collision with Dillon. At the time, Ikerd was driving a school bus and had stopped to let children exit. Dillon, who was driving a tractor…
