National Spine & Pain Centers

National Spine & Pain Centers (“NSPC”) is a provider of interventional pain management services focused on relieving chronic back and neck pain. Interventional pain management is a rapidly growing medical specialty whose objective is to relieve pain through advanced, minimally invasive procedures while preventing costly, invasive surgery. NSPC provides administrative and management services to affiliated physicians who are dedicated to providing high-quality patient care in outpatient ambulatory surgical center settings. Affiliated physicians are fellowship-trained and board-certified/ board-eligible pain specialists, and many are nationally recognized leaders in pain management.

With support from Sentinel, NSPC grew significantly and emerged as the national leader in serving interventional pain management physician groups. When Sentinel invested, NSPC served nine clinics, all in Maryland. Five years later, NSPC had grown eightfold, serving 69 clinics in seven states. Having increased NSPC’s profitability significantly, we achieved our investment objectives and sold the business to another private equity firm.