Treatment Among Commercial and Medicaid-Insured Adults With Incident Chronic Pain Episodes.

ABSTRACT: Analyses of health care data can reveal utilization of treatment options that comprise a multidisciplinary approach to chronic pain management. This retrospective cohort study aimed to characterize treatments among commercially versus Medicaid-insured adults with incident episodes of chronic pain. We used MarketScan data to identify patients with diagnoses for conditions associated with chronic pain, assess procedure codes that align with broad categories of treatment options, and compare receipt of treatments by insurance type. Among enrollees aged ≥18 years, 4,254,818 adults with commercial insurance and 583,369 with Medicaid met continuous enrollment criteria and had no chronic pain episodes in 2017. Among patients with incident chronic pain episodes during 2018 to 2020, we determined t

SUBMITTER: Bohm MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11560471 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature