Chronic Pain and Health Care Spending: An Analysis of Longitudinal Data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

Objective To estimate average incremental health care expenditures associated with chronic pain by health care service category, expanding on prior research that focused on specific pain conditions instead of general pain, excluded low levels of pain, or did not incorporate pain duration. Data Sourc...

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Published in:Health services research 2015-06, Vol.50 (3), p.847-870
Main Authors: Stockbridge, Erica L., Suzuki, Sumihiro, Pagán, José A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Body Mass Index
Book publishing
Care and treatment
Chronic pain
Chronic Pain - economics
Comorbidity
Economic models
Economic theory
Female
Health Behavior
Health care costs
Health care expenditures
Health care industry
Health care policy
Health Care Spending and Costs
Health economics
Health Expenditures - statistics & numerical data
health services
Health Services - economics
Health Services - utilization
Health Status
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Medical care, Cost of
medical expenditures
Middle Aged
Pain
Pain management
Severity of Illness Index
Socioeconomic Factors
Studies
Surveys
Young Adult
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Summary:Objective To estimate average incremental health care expenditures associated with chronic pain by health care service category, expanding on prior research that focused on specific pain conditions instead of general pain, excluded low levels of pain, or did not incorporate pain duration. Data Source Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data (2008–2011; N = 26,671). Study Design Differences in annual expenditures for adults at different levels of pain that interferes with normal work, as measured by the SF‐12, were estimated using recycled predictions from two‐part logit‐generalized linear regression models. Principal Findings “A little bit” of chronic pain‐related interference was associated with a $2,498 increase in total adjusted expenditures over no pain interference (p 
ISSN:0017-9124
1475-6773
DOI:10.1111/1475-6773.12263