Dr. Gorrell is Tampa Bay's Premiere Wellness & Pain Management MD!

We are still accepting new patients for a limited time only.  Call 352-224-3139 to schedule your appointment now.  Get healthier in 2013!  Be honest with yourself and your doctor.  Decide what is best for you and Doctor Gorrell is here to support you.  If you’re coming from a “pill mill” where the doctor has lost his license, and you know that you have a drug problem, make this the year where you get the destructive opioid addiction out of your life.  Take positive control by resetting your physiology with Suboxone.  You do not have to suffer and go through a cold turkey withdrawal.  This is rarely effective, and frequently people relapse.  We offer a multidisciplinary approach including medication management, physiological repair, and psychotherapy.  We refer to therapist in the community and work to create a customized program for our patients.

If your chronic pain patient in legitimate pain, Doctor Gorrell is a compassionate and caring physician who work hard to manage your pain.  Again a multidisciplinary approach will be created which is customized to your problem.  We offer interventional pain blocks, medication management, and referrals to orthopedic and spine surgery as indicated.  All FDA approved medications may be prescribed in our quest to control your pain.  We DO NOT OFFER A MONEY BACK GUARANTEE!  This is a ridiculous proposal!  We guarantee that you will see the doctor and he will listen to you.  We guarantee that you will be provided a complete physical exam.  We guarantee our best effort to treat patients to the standard of care and follow the best practices in medicine and in pain management.  We guarantee that you will be treated with respect  and dignity.  Exams are performed with clothing on but if you are ever uncomfortable, you can ask for a chaperone to be present in the room at any time. Currently, we accept Medicare and soon will be on the panel with simply healthcare.  Call now before the slots for new patients are filled.

Representatives from Pampered Chef (Merrilee Severino), Thirty-one Purses  (Kim Fanning), Avon, Bedroom Kandi boutique by Sonja, and more….  Get all your holiday shopping done and get entered to win free gifts.  You can earn tickets by doing the activities described below or you can purchase them at the event.

• RSVP  to 813-468-3726 to get one ticket for the prize drawing raffle; If no answer leave a message
• Book a show with a representative gets you  another ticket
• Place an order for  another ticket
• Bring a Friend; get a ticket!!! Maximize your opportunities to win by doing all of the above!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• If there is low turnout, all prizes may not be awarded at this event.
•  Remember  the address is 5119 Commercial Way Spring Hill, FL. That’s just 3 blocks south of Weeki Wachee springs and the intersection of US 19 and Commercial Way. It is next to the Treasure Cove and on the same block with the big dinosaur.   Daytime phone number and during the event call 352-224-3139.

Act now to get in and start the process of getting off opiates! To be a candidate, you must be tapered down to a moderate/low level of opiates equivalent to about 30 mg of methadone a day.  Then the cost is only $350 for the 1st months worth of visits which usually takes 3 to 4 office visits on average and follow-up monthly maintenance visits are only $150.  This is a real bargain considering how much time, energy, money and effort is spent on finding these medications and purchasing them if you do not really need to be on them. The shortage on all opiates is only getting worse as the DEA continues to clamp down on the supply.  Do yourself a favor and get out of the rat race.

Additionally, more and more pain clinics are going out of business.  According to patients who call our office, Dr Keesal’s office is now closed for example. We also know that MD and more is having trouble as they are short a Dr. If you have been in pain management and have realized that you have been taking opiates for the wrong reasons, come see us so we can begin to plan an exit strategy for you! Doctor Gorrell will personally meet with you and customize the plan to minimize your discomfort, make things affordable, and rebuild your neurochemistry so you can be off narcotics without suffering withdrawal symptoms and having chronic cravings for them. Because of the shortage of oxycodone and opiates which is driven by DEA action, it is actually cheaper and easier to find Suboxone! Call 352-224-3139 now!

Learn from the master! Ms Severino, founder & CEO of Ms Physician’s Practice & Revenue Consulting will personally teach this class. She has over 25 years experience & will make the subject matter exciting & memorable. This will increase your chances of passing the test on the first try. Participation fee is only $50.00 for member of AAPC and $75 for non-members. Class is from 9AM to 3PM.

Topics that will be covered include:

• Sample questions with answers and reasoning
• Overview of CPT, ICD-9 and HCPCS books
• where and how to quickly find the information you need
• Book preparation – what is and what is not allowed
• Allowed reference materials
• Test taking tactics
• Time management
• Supplies – what is needed and what is allowed
• Examination – what to expect
• Overview of Medical Terminology and Anatomy
• Exam results – when to expect

Ms Severino is a speaker who is in demand nationally & just returned from speaking at the national

(POMAA) meeting in Nashville, TN where she was one of the keynote speakers on Thursday, 9/20/12. She also just got her Certified Medical Management Practitioner from the Center For Individual Excellence. This credential is in addition to her CPC, CPM, & NAAC certifications. RSVP with Merrilee at msppmrc@gmail.com or call (727) 408-0225.

Please bring current CPT, ICD-9 and HCPCS books! Pay at the door. Please make checks/money orders payable to: St Petersburg, FL LC Of AAPC. Credit card orders must be done by the group treasurer. Ask Merrilee how.

PS: Check out Merrilee’s new corp website: Yourbusinessmedic.com Tell her how you like it?

PPS: Are you currently using the Official CPC Certification Study Guide offered by AAPC? YES  NO

The American Academy of professional coders is having a fantastic chapter seminar today which starts 7:15 AM.  It is their local billing and coding symposium and you can get 7 CEU’s!  If you are practice manager,  Biller, coder,   healthcare provider, or a physician who wants to better understand where the money comes from and how to get paid, you need to be there.

There will be a vendor booth section as well and people are coming from as far away as Miami!  See speaker roster below and I urge you to become a certified professional coder and certified practice manager if you’re not on yet.  It is only way to get paid with the insurance companies continuing to restrict reimbursements.  Remember if you are a physician, all billing and coding errors are done under your license.  If there is an error, it is considered  health care fraud.  If we charge you with Medicaid fraud, and successfully prosecute you.  Under new Florida law,  your license to practice.  So it is actually very important for you are someone from your staff to come to these type of events.  Also come to events like these to learn how to be audit proof when your RAC audit comes to her facility/physician’s office.

Subject: AAPC – Event Reminder – St Petersburg Fl

Dear Merrilee Severino, CPC (01041099),The St Petersburg Florida chapter officers have requested that this event reminder be sent to you. Please refer to the details below. Local Chapter Seminar Start Date: Sep 08, 2012 Start Time: 7:15AM Location: St Pete Annual Billing and Coding Symposium 12600 Roosevelt Blvd N St Pete, FL 33716 Directions: St. Petersburg Marriotthttps://www.marriott.com/hotels/maps/travel/tpasb-st-petersburg-marriott-clearwater/ Contact: Merrilee Severino Contact Phone: 727-408-0225 Contact Email: msppmrc@gmail.com CEUs: 7.00 Seminar Presentations Start Presenter Topic CEUs Sep 8 2012 8:00AM John Bishop, PA, CPC, CGSC, CPRC Auditing From A Clinicians Perspective 1.00 Sep 8 2012 9:00AM Arlene Morrow, CPC, CMM, CMSCS Linking Medical Necessity to the Complexity of Decision Making 1.00 Sep 8 2012 10:15AM Virginia Long Challenges in the Future 1.00 Sep 8 2012 11:15AM Demekisa Davis, DOM Alternative Medicine 1.00 Sep 8 2012 12:15PM Zoe Pine, CPC CODING GAMES 1.00 Sep 8 2012 1:15PM Kelvin Gorrell, MD Prolonged Services 1.00 Sep 8 2012 2:15PM Dr Jennifer Hayes Robotics in GYN surgery 1.00   Best regards, AAPC on behalf of the St Petersburg Florida chapter. If you have any questions about this event, contact the St Petersburg Florida chapter officers. http://www.aapc.com/ Upholding a Higher Standard

If you are having troubles updating your preferences via the website, you may also contact AAPC directly by calling 1-800-626-CODE (2633).

Thought for the day:

Self-diagnosis is definitely overrated!Moral to the story: Come see Dr. Gorrell instead

RSVP now at 352-224-3139 and join us for a fun night of shopping, eating & socializing! There will be a Thirty One Purse demo by the legendary Kim Fanning and a Pampered Chef recipe demo of dark chocolate and fruit  fondue & Asian chicken salad by the world famous Merrilee Severino! As a added bonus, there will be the opportunity for the first guests to arrive to sample NutraMetrix OPC 3, calcium, and ultimate aloe versus a competitor! A brief presentation about bio identical hormones and how wellness medicine combined with nutraceuticals cured Merrilee’s infertility problems after 39 years & resulted in our miracle baby Amy Beth Gorrell’s birth will be presented by Dr. Gorrell, Tampa Bay’s premier antiaging and pain management Doctor!  Meet  Amy Beth Gorrell 1.0! (she just had  her 1st birthday on July 28!) You will learn how wellness medicine can reverse many chronic medical conditions, even curing them,  and prolong your life.  It can even making you look 10 years younger and live 10 years longer minimum on average. RSVP required as seating is limited. Call now! 352-224-3139.

Patients of Malcom C Foster, M.D. located at 10130 US Hwy 19 Port Richey, FL  34668 (727) 861-1875 will need to find a new physician.  Our office has confirmed with them the closure of their practice.  Please make sure to locate a new physician as quickly as possible so they may fax a records request.  They will continue to process the requests as quickly as they can, when offices close there is a huge workload of copying and sending medical records and that can take some time.  Your new physician may require these before you are seen so do not wait until your appointment, ask to send request asap.

Springhill, FL June 14, 2012- Kelvin W Gorrell MD successfully passed his board certification in Pain Management with The American Board of Pain Medicine.  Dr. Gorrell already holds board certification in anesthesiology and completed his ten year renewal in July of 2011 with The American Board of Anesthesiology.  In addition to his board certifications, Dr. Gorrell has recently trained  to begin offering patients Suboxone therapy to patients with opiate addiction.  After July 1^st , 2012  rule 64B8-9.0131 goes into effect for pain clinics in Florida.  Many pain clinics cannot meet this standard of education requirements for their physicians and will close.  Make sure that your physician is qualified and will continue to practice past July 1st.

64B8-9.0131 Training Requirements for Physicians Practicing in Pain Management Clinics.

Effective July 1, 2012, physicians who have not met the qualifications set forth in subsections (1) through (6), below, shall have successfully completed a pain medicine fellowship that is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or a pain medicine residency that is accredited by ACGME. Prior to July 1, 2012, physicians prescribing or dispensing controlled substance medications in pain-management clinics registered pursuant to Section 458.3265, F.S., must meet one of the following qualifications:

(1) Board certification by a specialty board recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and holds a sub-specialty certification in pain medicine;

(2) Board certification in pain medicine by the American Board of Pain Medicine (ABPM);

(3) Successful completion of a pain medicine fellowship that is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or a pain medicine residency that is accredited by the ACGME;

(4)(a) Successful completion of a residency program in physical medicine and rehabilitation, anesthesiology, neurology, neurosurgery, family practice, internal medicine, orthopedics or psychiatry approved by the ACGME; or

(b) Sub-specialty certification in hospice and palliative medicine or geriatric medicine recognized by ABMS;

(5) Current staff privileges at a Florida-licensed hospital to practice pain medicine or perform pain medicine procedures;

(6) Three (3) years of documented full-time practice, which is defined as an average of 20 hours per week each year, in pain-management and, attendance and successful completion of 40 hours of in-person, live-participatory AMA Category I CME courses in pain management that address all the following subject areas:

(a) The goals of treating both short term and ongoing pain treatment;

(b) Controlled substance prescribing rules, including controlled substances agreements;

(c) Drug screening or testing, including usefulness and limitations;

(d) The use of controlled substances in treating short-term and ongoing pain syndromes, including usefulness and limitations;

(e) Evidenced-based non-controlled pharmacological pain treatments;

(f) Evidenced-based non-pharmacological pain treatments;

(g) A complete pain medicine history and a physical examination;

(h) Appropriate progress note keeping;

(i) Co-morbidities with pain disorders, including psychiatric and addictive disorders;

(j) Drug abuse and diversion, and prevention of same;

(k) Risk management; and

(l) Medical ethics.

In addition to the CME set forth in subsection (6) above, physicians must be able to document hospital privileges at a Florida-licensed hospital; practice under the direct supervision of a physician who is qualified in subsections (1) through (4) above; or have the practice reviewed by a Florida-licensed risk manager and document compliance with all recommendations of the risk management review.

(7) Upon completion of the 40 hours of CME set forth above, physicians qualifying under (6) above, must also document the completion of 15 hours of live lecture format, Category I CME in pain management for every year the physician is practicing pain management.

Rulemaking Authority 458.3265(4)(b) FS. Law Implemented 458.3265(4)(b) FS. History–New 5-17-11, Amended 5-28-12.

Dr. Gorrell has successfully met several of the qualifications and will continue to serve the Hernando County community by practicing interventional pain and wellness medicine using nutraceuticas and bio-equivalent hormone therapy at this office located at 5119 Commercial Way Spring Hill, FL  34606.  For more information, you can reach his office at 352-224-3139 or visit his website www.doctorgorrell.com ###

A fun time will be had by all! Meet, mix, mingle with the doctor, his staff, and family and learn how you can become in charge of your own health and wellness.  Learn how Dr. Gorrell can help you look and feel 10 years younger and live 10 or more years longer. Learn options for antiaging medicine as well as for pain management. There will be an opportunity to sample nutraceuticals that can extend your life!  Specifically, samples of ultimate aloe in Kiwi Strawberry versus a competitor aloe (Which taste terrible), our calcium plus with vitamin D3,   our OPC 3, and our delicious complete greens  (Other complete dreams taste like seaweed or algae! Yuck!) which taste like orange dream sickle and gives the value of 8 to 9 servings of green vegetables will be available until samples run out! So come early. Discussions will be had on how our lifestyle choices either shorten our life are extend our life.  Q&A sessions will occur intermittently throughout the day. There will be light refreshments served including chips and salsa from La Iguana Loca Mexican Restaurant.

Be there by noon so you can see the beginning of Merrilee Severino’s pampered Chef show! Learn how the right cooking tools can make your life faster, easier, more healthful and even fun. In this tough economy, you can save money by learning how to cook at home with the right equipment in a way that makes it even faster and cheaper than eating junk food away from home. Learn how to cook once a week for the entire week! This will save time and money. The pampered Chef tools are the single best way I know of to cook effectively, with nonstick surfaces, and simultaneously preserving the nutrient content of the foods you buy. On the menu today: cool veggie pizza, watermelon sherbet torte, and for dessert; Chocolate lava cake with cherry filling!

A $85 pampered chef  deep dish Baker will be raffled off after 1 PM and tickets are just a dollar each! You do not have to be present to win.

At the same time, consider visiting the Weeki Wachee Springs where the Hernando County Sheriff is hosting a hurricane preparedness event with free face painting, and popcorn for everyone. If you have any old prescription drugs they will be able to take some back there is well. They are just free blocks north of us on US 19.

Today on Friday, May 25, 2012 at 10:30 AM, the phone number for Trident at 6131 US 19 New Port Richey, FL: 727-842-6900 was called several times. I was only able to get an answering machine. I was unable to get a live person on the phone. I’m in the process of verifying the above statement by several  new patients to our clinic. As a pain management physician, I’m concerned if any patients are unable to be seen every 30 days For their medication renewals as they are at risk of going into acute withdrawl. Additionally, they frequently must turn to the emergency rooms for usually a 5 day supply of medication or oftentimes no medication at all. The emergency room physicians are not able to properly manage chronic pain patients. We are. If you are having problems getting access to a pain management physician please call our office at 352-224-3139. We have appointments available today and a limited number of positions available for new patients in the future. Call now to schedule your appointment before the panel for new patients is closed! We accept Medicare and we are out a network with all other insurances at present but we will submit a billing claim form and if you have out-of-network benefits, they will pay at your out-of-network benefit rate. We are owned and operated by board-certified anesthesiologist. You should seek out a pain management clinic that is physician owned and operated so you can have continuity of care. You not be confused by Facilities that change their names from pain management to wellness centers because they are likely under the microscope and trying to skirt certain state laws go to sleep alone with

For new patients we require a six-month pharmacy transcript, your most recent CT or MRI reports, and the most recent 3 months of medical records from your current pain management provider. It is preferred you bring copies with you as this often speeds things up. But we still have to go through a document verification process where we are dependent on other facilities to respond to us. Initial visit therefore requires waiting for the documents to be verified which could take 3 to 4 hours unless you come a day in advance to start the process. We therefore request especially on initial visits that the patient comes alone. Please did not bring your significant other, children, etc. if at all possible.

We look forward to serving you and helping to stamp out pain in your life!