The Association between Use of Chiropractic Care and Costs of Care among Older Medicare Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain and Multiple Comorbidities

Keyphrases

• Health Care Costs 100%
• Medicaid Patients 100%
• Manipulative Behavior 100%
• Multiple Comorbidities 100%
• Pain Comorbidities 100%
• Chronic Low Back Pain (cLBP) 100%
• Medical Care 33%
• Comorbid 16%
• Treatment Episodes 16%
• Comorbid Patients 16%
• Propensity Score Weighting 16%
• Pain Episode 16%
• Reimbursement 8%
• Medicare Beneficiaries 8%
• Medicare Fee-for-service 8%
• Health Care Use 8%
• Low Back Pain 8%
• Medical Treatment 8%
• Low Dose Rate 8%
• Treatment Group 8%
• Medicare Reimbursement 8%
• Treatment Use 8%
• Treatment Exposure 8%
• Selection Bias 8%
• Pain Medication 8%
• Psychiatric Medication 8%
• Medicare Spending 8%
• Overall Cost 8%
• Annual Growth 8%
• Expenditure Categories 8%
• Low Back Pain Treatment 8%
• Low Back Pain Patients 8%
• Back Surgery 8%

Medicine and Dentistry

• Health Care Cost 100%
• Medicare 100%
• Chiropractic 100%
• Low Back Pain 100%
• Comorbidity 100%
• Manual Therapy 85%
• Medical Care 28%
• Combination Therapy 7%
• Back 7%
• Drug Therapy 7%
• Retrospective Study 7%
• Selection Bias 7%

Nursing and Health Professions

• Medicare 100%
• Chiropractic 100%
• Low Back Pain 100%
• Comorbidity 100%
• Manipulative Medicine 85%
• Reimbursement 14%
• Propensity Score 14%
• Health Care Utilization 7%
• Health Care Cost 7%
• Drug Therapy 7%
• Combination Therapy 7%