As of August 1st 2024, Dr. David Johnson will no longer be part of our physicians team at our medical practice. A new Pain Management Physician will be replacing him soon, the date is still to be determined. Due to this recent change, Dr. Timothy Monroe will be Managing the Pain Management side of our practice and the pain management patients until our new pain management physician starts. Due to the recent change there are several things we would like our patients to be aware of and possibly reach out to insurance or primary care providers. What this may mean for you as the patient:

• Every insurance and every insurance plan has different guidelines for treatment and services. Suggestion to Patients: Patients can call their health insurance or their Primary Care Provider to determine if a referral and/or prior authorization is required for Dr. Timothy Monroe to see them for Pain Management. If the patient’s insurance required one in order to see Dr. Johnson previously, our office will need a new referral/authorization to see Dr. Monroe for Pain Management. If Insurance/Primary Care Provider does not approve Dr. Monroe, the patient’s Primary Care Provider will need to refer the patient to a new Pain Management Provider/Office.
• Procedures/Injections may be put on hold until the Pain Management Physician starts at our office. It is possible that you may be referred out to another pain management provider to complete ordered procedures/injections. This recent change will more than likely result in having to cancel/resubmit authorization requests to your insurance company for the referral out and requesting approval for the consultation and/or procedure/injection ordered to be completed by the outside pain management physician, until the new pain management physician starts.
• If there are any issues with prescriptions being filled, your pharmacy should call our office. Our clinical staff can verify any prescription and instructions as needed by your pharmacy.
• If our office has received a referral for patients to be seen for pain management, the referring provider will be notified we are not taking on any new pain management patients till our new pain management provider starts. Once our new physician starts we will notify all referring providers that our new pain management provider is now taking new pain management patients.
• Medical records for patients that saw Dr. Johnson, while he was working under our practice, will be maintained by our practice. If you need your medical records please submit a HIPAA compliant Release of Information authorizing our office to release your requested records to yourself or to whomever you wish to authorize our office to send them to, please make sure to get the company name or provider, fax and phone numbers.