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

July 22, 2026 by hani

can inform interventions and strategies to improve the quality of life for individuals with chronic pain.

Objective: To estimate the economic cost of chronic pain in the United States in 2021.

Research design: A cross-sectional analysis estimating the economic costs of chronic pain in 2021.

Subjects: In 2021, 6445 (representing 65.8 million) adults with continue reading …