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Home / Publications / Pain Research Forum / Papers of the Week / Declining Utilization and Inflation-Adjusted Expenditures for Epidural Procedures in Chronic Spinal Pain in the Medicare Population.

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Papers: 2 Jan 2021 - 8 Jan 2021


Human Studies


2021 Jan


Pain Physician


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33400424?dopt=Abstract


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Declining Utilization and Inflation-Adjusted Expenditures for Epidural Procedures in Chronic Spinal Pain in the Medicare Population.

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Declining Utilization and Inflation-Adjusted Expenditures for Epidural Procedures in Chronic Spinal Pain in the Medicare Population.
Manchikanti L, Pampati V, Soin A, Sanapati MR, Kaye AD, Hirsch JA
Pain Physician. 2021 Jan; 24(1):1-15.
PMID: 33400424.

Abstract

Despite epidurals being one of the most common interventional pain procedures for managing chronic spinal pain in the United States, expenditure analysis lacks assessment in correlation with utilization patterns.