12. Imaging leads to Surgery
‣ Mike twisted his knee hiking
‣ x-ray reveals "bone-on-bone"
‣ Schedules surgery even though
it wasn’t the cause of pain!
The Aware alternative
‣ Diagnosis: MCL sprain no need
for imaging/surgery, pain
resolves
13.
14. 14
Employer 3 PMPM
Employer 2 PMPM
Employer 1 PMPM
Nonuser vs Aware user PMPM ($)
Non Users Aware Users
$1.72
$4.91
$4.55
$45.09
$9.78
$78.66
PMPM ($)
Real World Savings: 3 Data sets
27. 64 studies show
that the most
common elective
surgeries are no
more effective than
doing nothing.
50
63
75
88
100
Surgery Passage of Time
Pain
Improvement
.
Efficacy:
Harris IA, Sidhu V, Mittal R, Adie S. Surgery for chronic musculoskeletal
pain: the question of evidence. Pain. 2020 Sep;161 Suppl 1:S95-S103..