The foundation of our solution platform for specialty benefits management is our clinical appropriateness guidelines.
AIM Clinical Appropriateness Guidelines for Musculoskeletal are developed through a rigorous process integrating evidence-based literature with expert physician review. Included below are guidelines for spine surgery, joint surgery, and interventional pain management.
The interventions addressed in the AIM Clinical Appropriateness Guidelines for Spine Surgery include bone grafts, bone growth stimulators, foraminotomies, fusions, laminectomy, discectomy, disc arthroplasty, treatment of spinal deformity, and vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty.
OPEN THE GUIDELINES FOR SPINE SURGERY COMING SOON GUIDELINES EFFECTIVE AS OF May 18, 2019The interventions addressed in the AIM Clinical Appropriateness Guidelines for Joint Surgery include total replacement of the hip, knee, and shoulder; arthroscopy of the hip, knee, and shoulder; treatment of osteochondral defects; and meniscal allograft transplantation.
OPEN THE GUIDELINES FOR JOINT SURGERYThe interventions addressed in the AIM Clinical Appropriateness Guidelines for Interventional Pain Management include epidural steroid injections; paravertebral facet injection, nerve block, and neurolysis; sacroiliac steroid injections; spinal cord stimulators; and regional sympathetic nerve block.
OPEN THE GUIDELINES FOR INTERVENTIONAL PAIN MANAGEMENT COMING SOON GUIDELINES EFFECTIVE AS OF May 18, 2019The intervention addressed in the AIM Clinical Appropriateness Guidelines for Sacroiliac Joint Fusion is the minimally invasive sacroiliac joint fusion with the IFuse system (titanium triangular implant).
OPEN THE GUIDELINES FOR SACROILIAC JOINT FUSIONTo open our guidelines, your computer needs Adobe Reader, a free and trusted software that allows you to view PDFs.
GET ADOBE READER