America Pays $722.8 Billion for Chronic Pain and Still Gets Care Wrong

comprehensive national estimate from PubMed, based on 2021 data, places chronic pain’s annual economic cost at $722.8 billion: medical care accounted for $530.6 billion, and lost productivity added another $192.2 billion.

Background: Chronic pain affects more than 1 in 5 adults in the United States. Understanding the economic burden of chronic pain continue reading …

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