Where America’s Health Care Dollars Are Spent
June 1, 2020
Last Reviewed: October 2021
Low back pain and neck pain topped U.S. health care spending in 2016, beating out 153 other health conditions, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association in March 2020. It looked at payments by Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, and individuals (i.e., out-of-pocket expenses) over 20 years beginning in 1996. Low […]