Stanford accelerated intelligent neuromodulation therapy

I am most interested as well. I had given this information to my husband when I first heard of it. Unfortunately with his depression he is a great procrastinator or will not even follow thru. He has done other programs at Stanford with no positive outcomes yet.

I would love to try this but there are so few places that do it. I’m also not sure if it’s covered by insurance.

Yes. The one hospital that offered it was Iowa City and they just closed it down because they didn't want to meet the quota of patients that the company (MAGNUS) required 🥺

My insurance was accepted by the Iowa hospital...

I live near Phoenix, and the clinic I go to for Spravato will be starting the SAINT protocol very soon. It is a TMS treatment, and if you have not had luck with it in the past I would be curious to see if doing it this way will work. I have thought about it myself.

@ashleygm814
Does it have exact targeting for guiding the TMS? Without that it may be just accelerated TMS. Do you know? What is the name of the facility?

Thank you so much for your help!

@ceciford oh no! I didn’t realize that … it’s the closest one to me and I was thinking about going there.
I have heard that Mayo is supposed to get one soon. Maybe they’ll buy the system from Iowa (kidding but you never know!)

@ceciford did your insurance approve SAINT? I know most insurance companies approve TMS but I’ve heard SAINT is often not approved and can run in the tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket.

I believe it is a different coil, not sure what else is different about it other than having multiple sessions per day for several days in a row. So I think the facility does need special equipment to do it, which is why so few places offer it.