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About Dr. Patel
Shachi Patel, MD, is a double board-certified interventional pain management physician and the owner of Delmarva Pain and Spine Center in Newark, Delaware. She is an astute, patient-focused physician who offers multimodal treatment plans to address a wide range of pain conditions.
Dr. Patel earned her doctor of medicine at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania. She went on to complete her anesthesiology residency at Harvard Medical School – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. She continued her subspecialty training in acute and chronic pain management at Weill Cornell Medical Center and Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. Dr. Patel is a down-to-earth and thoughtful physician. Attentive to patients’ individual needs, she believes that personalized care and combined therapies provide a focused approach that brings the best results and quality of life.
At Delmarva Pain and Spine Center, Dr. Patel treats a variety of pain conditions, including complex regional pain syndrome, neuropathy, and arthritis, with innovative therapies. She performs epidural and facet joint injections, trigger point injections, and joint injections. Dr. Patel also provides radiofrequency ablation, spinal cord stimulation, and regenerative medicine.
Dr. Patel and the team at Delmarva Pain and Spine Center welcome new patients and accept most insurance plans. Appointments are available by calling Delmarva Pain and Spine Center or booking online.
Opioid Statement
While there are particular medications that we are willing to prescribe, we WILL NOT write more than what is recommended by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines. Furthermore, we will only prescribe under circumstances where a patient’s pathology warrants their use, the patient satisfies specific criteria, the patient has failed other lower risk treatment options, and maintains strict compliance to the provisions of our opioid contract.
Please note that we will not prescribe opioids on the initial visit and subsequent refills will not be provided without an office visit.
The Delmarva Pain and Spine Center has specific network agreements with many insurance carriers and plans, but not all. We are in-network with the most common commercial insurance policies and managed Medicaid plans offered in the State of Delaware. If you need any information to complete this verification, please feel free to call our office.
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"Dr. Patel is a force of nature. She is relentlessly upbeat and positive. Her staff is courteous and kind."
"I haven't enough superlatives to speak to Dr. Patel's encouraging, supportive manner."
"Dr. Patel is wonderful! She’s patient and kind, explains new treatment options thoroughly, and answers all my husband’s questions (he asks a lot)!"
