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MIVA is a unique outpatient based minimally invasive, non-surgical, and image guided procedural clin

10/31/2026

---The Patients We Turn Away---

We tell people no fairly often. It is the part of this job nobody advertises.

Some weeks we see several people who have been told, or have read, that an embolization procedure will fix what is wrong — and it will not. The fibroid is not what is causing the pain. The knee arthritis is too advanced. The compression fracture healed eight months ago. The bleeding is not coming from hemorrhoids and needs a colonoscopy first.

Saying so costs us the case. We say it anyway, because the alternative is a procedure that does not work on a patient who trusted us, and because a referring physician who sends us a patient we should not treat needs to hear that from us rather than find out later.

If you come to us and you are not a candidate, you will leave knowing what you do have and who should be looking at it. That is a worse business model and a better one to be able to live with.

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MIVA Medical · Independence, MO · 816.648.6482

10/29/2026

If you have already met your deductible this year, a procedure costs less now than it will in January.

Most commercial plans reset the deductible and the out-of-pocket maximum on 1 January. If this has been a year of hospital stays, surgery or a run of medical bills, you may have already paid down most of what your plan asks of you. In a few weeks that goes back to zero.

The same procedure, the same plan, done in December rather than February, can cost very different amounts out of your pocket.

Two things we will say plainly. Not every plan runs on the calendar year, so this does not apply to everyone. And prior authorization takes time — December is late to start, November is not.

Michelle verifies benefits before anything gets scheduled, so you know what you owe before the procedure rather than finding out after. If you have been putting off treatment for fibroids, an enlarged prostate, knee arthritis or hemorrhoids, this is the time of year to find out where you actually stand.

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MIVA Medical · Independence, MO · 816.648.6482

10/27/2026

Chewing ice all day? It has a name, and it usually means something.

Pagophagia — compulsive ice chewing — is a recognized sign of iron deficiency. In women with fibroids, heavy menstrual bleeding is usually what’s behind it.

Fibroids are the most common benign tumor in women. Cumulative incidence by age 50 is reported at roughly 80% in Black women and 70% in white women. When they cause heavy bleeding, iron stores fall, and the exhaustion that follows gets blamed on stress, poor sleep, or simply getting older.

The craving is a clue rather than a quirk. So is being winded on stairs you used to take without thinking.

If the bleeding is coming from fibroids, treating the fibroids addresses the cause of both. And if it isn’t, that’s worth knowing too — a pelvic ultrasound and a blood count answer the question quickly.

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MIVA Medical · Independence, MO · 816.648.6482

10/24/2026

--Hemorrhoids and Anemia--

Bleeding hemorrhoids can quietly cause anemia. The fatigue people blame on getting older is sometimes the blood loss.

Internal hemorrhoids are swollen blood vessels. A single episode of bright red blood is rarely dangerous on its own — the concern is cumulative. Frequent bleeding over weeks or months adds up to real blood loss, and iron-deficiency anemia is what follows: persistent tiredness, pale skin, breathlessness on stairs you used to manage, cold hands and feet.

Creams and wipes soothe irritated tissue. They don’t stop the bleeding.

Hemorrhoid artery embolization closes the arteries feeding the hemorrhoids from inside the blood vessels. During the embolization itself nothing is cut and no instrument passes into the a**l ca**l. It’s outpatient, and you go home the same day.

One thing we’ll always say: any re**al bleeding should be properly evaluated to confirm hemorrhoids are the source and rule out other causes. We require a sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy before HAE, and we coordinate that through our GI partners — you don’t have to arrange it yourself.

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MIVA Medical · Independence, MO · 816.648.6482

10/22/2026

--Office-based clinic, and who treats you--

Same procedure. No hospital. And the same two doctors every single time.

That’s Dr. Silas Williams and Dr. Travis Brown — board-certified interventional radiologists who own this practice. Not a rotating team, not whoever is on the schedule.

Most of what we do could be done in a hospital. We do it in an office-based lab in Independence instead, and the difference shows up in ways patients notice. You park outside the door, not in a garage. There’s no admissions desk, no wristband, no waiting on transport. The procedure is same-day and you go home that afternoon.

Behind the scenes it matters more. We handle insurance authorizations in-house rather than sending your referring office paperwork. We order the imaging you need. Your referring physician gets a report after every procedure, without being buried in notes for every visit.

We treat uterine fibroids, enlarged prostate, knee arthritis, hemorrhoids and spinal compression fractures.

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MIVA Medical · Independence, MO · 816.648.6482

10/14/2026

Told a hysterectomy is the only answer for your fibroids? For most women, it isn’t.

Heavy bleeding, pelvic pressure, and the fatigue that comes with both — most women live with fibroid symptoms for years before anyone lays out all the options.

Uterine fibroid embolization treats fibroids without surgery. A catheter is guided into the uterine arteries and the blood supply feeding the fibroids is cut off, so they shrink over the following months. The uterus stays. There’s no incision, no general anesthesia, and most women are back to normal activity within days.

We take a deliberately conservative approach to the procedure itself. The target is to completely shut down the vascularity feeding the fibroids while preserving sluggish forward flow in the main uterine artery — rather than embolizing that artery to complete stasis. The fibroids lose their blood supply. The uterus keeps its own.

It isn’t right for everyone, and we’ll tell you if surgery suits your situation better. But fibroids are benign. There’s no clock running, and that means there’s time to ask what else exists before agreeing to an operation.

MIVA Medical · Independence, MO · 816.648.6482

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$A spinal compression fracture is most treatable in the first 12 weeks. Most people are never told that.If you or a paren...$

10/03/2026

A spinal compression fracture is most treatable in the first 12 weeks. Most people are never told that.

If you or a parent has been told to wait out a fracture in the spine with rest and pain medication, the timing matters more than it usually gets explained.

Kyphoplasty stabilizes the fractured bone through a needle, under X-ray guidance — no incision, no hospital stay, home the same day. The North American Spine Society gives vertebral augmentation its highest recommendation grade for improving pain and function in these fractures.

The window matters because Medicare coverage, and the clinical evidence behind it, is built around fractures under twelve weeks old with imaging showing the fracture is still active. A fracture that healed months ago is both less likely to respond and less likely to be covered.

If back pain started suddenly after a fall, a lift, or even a hard cough, it's worth having looked at sooner rather than later.

MIVA Medical · Independence, MO · 816.648.6482

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10/02/2026

Meet Michelle. When an insurance company says no, she's the reason that isn't the end of it.

This is one of the least visible parts of the practice and one of the most important. Michelle verifies every patient's benefits before anything gets scheduled, so nobody finds out what they owe after the procedure is already done. She handles prior authorizations in-house rather than sending paperwork back to your referring doctor's office.

And when a plan declines coverage, she works the case directly with the insurer — submitting the imaging, the scores, and the documented record of treatments already tried that didn't work. A denial on "medical necessity" grounds is very often a request for exactly that material.

We won't tell you it always works. Some plans have made a decision about a procedure rather than about your case, and no amount of documentation changes that. But the attempt gets made every time, and you are not the one making the phone calls.

MIVA Medical · Independence, MO · 816.648.6482

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09/28/2026

Up three times a night to use the bathroom? That isn't simply aging, and surgery isn't the only thing that fixes it.

Most men put off doing anything about an enlarged prostate for the same reason: what they've heard about TURP. The hospital stay, the catheter, and the effect on sexual function that nobody wants to bring up.

Prostate artery embolization works differently. Nothing passes through the urethra. A catheter is guided through the blood vessels to the arteries feeding the prostate, and the blood supply is reduced so the gland shrinks over the following weeks. It's done under light sedation, as an outpatient procedure. You go home the same day.

In 2026 the American Urological Association updated its BPH guidance to include PAE for prostates of 50 cc or larger, and advised that it be performed by an interventional radiologist — which is what we are.

If medication stopped working, or the side effects aren't worth it, it's worth a conversation.

MIVA Medical · Independence, MO · 816.648.6482

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01/27/2026

🩺 Struggling with Enlarged Prostate Symptoms in the KC Metro?

If frequent urination, weak stream, or waking up multiple times at night is affecting your quality of life, you may be dealing with BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia) — and surgery isn’t your only option.

At MIVA Medical, Dr. Brown offers Prostate Artery Embolization (PAE), a minimally invasive, non-surgical treatment that reduces blood flow to the prostate, helping it shrink naturally over time.

✅ No surgical incision
✅ Outpatient procedure
✅ Faster recovery
✅ Lower risk of sexual side effects

📍 Proudly serving patients across the Kansas City Metro, Missouri

If you’re looking for advanced prostate care in Missouri, PAE may be the solution you’ve been searching for.

👉 Learn more or schedule a consultation today.

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4200 Little Blue Parkway Ste 350
Independence, MO
64057

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Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

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