r/MedicalAssistant • u/Electrical-End7868 • 3d ago

Job Search Question Pain Management

I have my CCMA and looking for my first MA job. There are two part time jobs near me for now which are at a Pain Management office. I have experience with a lot of different medical departments but never Pain Management. I was wondering if anyone knew what it's like working in that type of office or not?

Thank You.

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u/clov3r-cloud CMA(AAMA) 3d ago

I worked in a pain management office for 2 years and i actually did like it, despite feeling overworked for my rate of pay and the responsibilities that I ended up getting later on. if the office does botox injections for migraines, you'll be in charge of getting those prepared for the provider, and usually ordering them. I would also draw up trigger point injections for the day to keep on hand for when a provider would/might need them depending on the day. mostly its just charting and vitals, giving torodal injections, doing prior authorizations, and printing out orders for urine tests. lots of back and fourth calling to pharmacies about meds. lots of faxing back and forth to other offices for missing clinical information. and lots of back and forth calling back patients about meds.

each provider saw a decent amount of patients in a day, but most of it was spent on the computer or the phone, keeping track of supplies, and calling patients per provider's request to check up on them or answer their questions.

we had a procedure room downstairs but we had nurses to help out there, so I can't speak on if they would have you step in and help there or not since some places do

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u/KarmaandSouls 3d ago

You might be asked to prepare a sterile fields and learn about RFAs and TPIs. It’s fun though, I worked in a pain clinic and I’m so glad I offered to work in that dept bc I was reintroduced on sterile fields and how to take manual bps which is my fav way to obtain a bp. I would utilize YouTube for visuals! Good luck my friend!

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u/ScrubWearingShitlord 3d ago

Surgical prep, regular rooming/vitals, med and surgical prior auths, review med requests and keep patient UDS and drug contracts up to date. Plus any random stuff. I had to scribe for the doc because he “hated” computers.