For pain management, Maryville matters because it is where Anderson Hospital is located, at 6800 State Route 162 — and Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP is on staff there with full privileges. We are licensed in Illinois and in Missouri.
That is our most direct tie to any town outside our own. You get an Illinois-licensed interventional pain doctor with privileges at the hospital in your town.
Medical ads use the term loosely, so here is what it means.
Hospital privileges are formal permission to admit and treat patients at one hospital. They are not automatic, and they do not last forever. The doctor applies. The hospital’s review board checks training, board certification, license, malpractice history and references. Then it grants privileges for set procedures and renews them on a cycle.
Full privileges are not the same as courtesy or consulting privileges. They mean the doctor can admit you and run your care, not just visit or give advice.
Why care? You can check it yourself. And it means a hospital with its own reasons to be careful has reviewed the doctor. Ask any specialist about it, whoever you end up seeing.
Most of what we do never needs a hospital. Here is where the line falls:
Office procedure suite — almost all pain procedures happen here. Epidural steroid injections, facet joint injections, diagnostic blocks, radiofrequency ablation, trigger point injections and hydrodissection are done under local anesthetic (numbing medicine), with no sedation. Each takes well under an hour, and you go home the same day.
Hospital setting — kept for cases where your health, not the procedure, drives the choice. Think serious heart or lung disease, blood thinners that make things harder, a need for deeper sedation, or a case where the safest place is an operating room with an anesthesia team.
Being on staff at Anderson means we make that call on medical grounds. It does not depend on whether we have somewhere to send you.
Visits, diagnostic blocks and image-guided procedures happen at our Missouri offices — 4477 Woodson Rd, St. Louis, where the fluoroscopy (live X-ray) suite is, or 12174 Natural Bridge Rd, St. Louis. From Maryville that is about a half-hour drive. Most people take I-55/70 west to I-270, then head south toward the airport.
A half-hour drive each way is no small thing when you hurt. So we pack the steps together instead of spreading them over many visits.
If you clearly need a diagnostic block and want to go ahead, we can often do it the same day as your first visit. That saves a second trip. It depends on which office you are at and what the exam shows. When you book, tell us you are coming from Illinois and want to combine them.
Bring your imaging on disc or through a patient portal, not just the written report. Bring a current list of your medicines with doses. Bring a short account of what you have tried and what each one really did. Patients who bring that usually leave with a set plan, not just a date to make one.
Office procedures are done at our Missouri offices, where the fluoroscopy suite and imaging gear are. The hospital tie matters for hospital stays and for cases that need a hospital. It does not matter for routine injections.
Hospitals keep staff lists and will confirm a doctor’s status if you ask. Board certifications are listed with certificate numbers on our pain management doctors page.
Usually, for Medicare and most private plans. Illinois Medicaid and narrow-network plans need checking — see pain management for Illinois patients.
Yes. Notes go back to whoever sent you or shares your care.
It means treating pain with targeted procedures, not just pills. The core list is epidural steroid injections, facet joint injections, diagnostic blocks, radiofrequency ablation, trigger point injections and hydrodissection. Each is done under local anesthetic (numbing medicine), with no sedation. Each takes well under an hour, and you go home the same day. We keep the hospital for patients whose health makes it the safer place.
Dr. Padda is licensed in Illinois and on staff with full privileges at Anderson Hospital in Maryville. Visits, diagnostic blocks and image-guided procedures happen at our two St. Louis offices. One of them has the fluoroscopy suite. From Maryville the drive is about half an hour. A diagnostic block can often be done the same day as your first visit, so one trip covers both.
Bring your imaging on disc or through a patient portal, not just the written report. Add a current list of medicines with doses. Add a short account of every treatment you have tried and what each one really did. If you want a same-day block, tell us when you book; most patients drive themselves home. Patients who bring all of that usually leave with a set plan.
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