Factors associated with persistently high-cost health care utilization for musculoskeletal pain.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Musculoskeletal pain conditions incur high costs and produce significant personal and public health consequences, including disability and opioid-related mortality. Persistence of high-cost health care utilization for musculoskeletal pain may help identify system inefficiencies that could limit value of care. The objective of this study was to identify factors associated with persistent high-cost utilization among individuals seeking health care for musculoskeletal pain.

Methods

This was a retrospective cohort study of Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data (2008-2013) that included a non-institutionalized, population-based sample of individuals seeking health care for a musculoskeletal pain condition (n = 12,985). Expenditures associated with musculoskeletal pain

SUBMITTER: Lentz TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6844454 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature