Increased Use of Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Back Pain Following Statewide Medicaid Coverage Changes in Oregon.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2016, Oregon introduced a policy to improve back pain treatment among Medicaid enrollees by expanding benefits for evidence-based complementary and alternative medical (CAM) services and establishing opioid prescribing restrictions.

Objective

To examine changes in CAM utilization following the policy and variations in utilization across patient populations.

Design

A retrospective study of Oregon Medicaid claims data, examining CAM therapy utilization by back pain patients pre- vs post-policy. We used an interrupted time series analysis to evaluate changes in CAM use and examined the association between patient characteristics and CAM use post-policy using linear regression models.

Participants

Adult Medicaid patients with back pain.

Interventio

SUBMITTER: Choo EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7947103 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature