National discovery engine
KneeLife runs standardized state-by-state searches for procedure names, common synonyms, knee indications, health systems, academic centers, radiology groups, pain practices, and orthopedic programs. Manufacturer locators, claims data, professional societies, trials, publications, and user submissions can create internal candidates, but they cannot establish a public listing by themselves.
| Internal status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Candidate | A plausible lead found through public data, a locator, research, or a submission; not public |
| Offering publicly confirmed | A current first-party page explicitly connects the procedure to knee pain and resolves a location/contact path |
| Provider confirmed | The program directly attested to displayed facts; this still is not a quality rating |
| Stale or withheld | The source disappeared, conflicts remain, or the offering can no longer be confirmed |
Two separate records
| Public directory pilot | Internal outreach pipeline |
|---|---|
| Contains only programs with an accessible first-party page explicitly connecting the procedure to knee pain | Also retains plausible programs that need direct confirmation before public inclusion |
| Shows the exact source, review date, indication, technique detail, and unknowns | Tracks procedure, location, source, evidence status, outreach status, and confirmation needs |
| Uses no ranking and no implied endorsement | Supports future email confirmation and scheduled re-verification |
Minimum public-pilot evidence
- The hospital, health system, practice, or named clinician controls the source page.
- The page explicitly connects genicular nerve ablation, radiofrequency ablation, or peripheral nerve stimulation to knee pain.
- A program identity and location can be resolved from the first-party site.
- The public card states only what the source supports and identifies material unknowns instead of inferring them.
What direct outreach should confirm
- Whether the program is currently accepting patients for the knee indication shown.
- Which clinician and location provide the procedure, with relevant credentials and licensure.
- The candidacy pathway, diagnostic testing, device or ablation technique, and follow-up plan.
- Current cash price, insurance participation, authorization process, and important exclusions.
- Any manufacturer, referral, ownership, research, or other financial relationships relevant to the service.
PNS taxonomy
Peripheral nerve stimulation is not treated as one uniform procedure. Public records separate the knee use described—knee osteoarthritis, persistent pain after knee surgery, perioperative or acute postoperative use, or other chronic knee pain—from the system type described—temporary percutaneous, implanted or longer-term, both pathways, or not specified. These labels describe the source; they do not establish candidacy or comparative effectiveness.
Indexing and commercial separation
Each category graduates independently. The RFA directory and main Find Care hub have enough source-backed inventory and transparent unknowns to be indexed. The PNS directory remains excluded until its clinical framing is physician-approved; PRP remains excluded until a useful attested cohort exists. Payment cannot create an offering-confirmed or verified status, hide an unknown field, affect organic ordering, or alter KneeLife's evidence summaries or Navigator output.
KneeLife standard: A future sponsored profile must be labeled and visually separated from verification. KneeLife will not use “preferred provider” language.
Maintenance
Public sources are checked on a rolling basis with a target interval of six months. Direct confirmations receive their own date and expire unless refreshed. A listing is removed, withheld, or returned to the outreach pipeline when its source disappears, the service is no longer current, or material details conflict.