Cascade Services and Spending Following Low-Value Imaging for Uncomplicated Low Back Pain among Commercially Insured Adults

J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Mar;38(4):1102-1105. doi: 10.1007/s11606-022-07829-2. Epub 2022 Sep 29.

Authors

Ishani Ganguli^{1

2}, Wei Ying³, Tara Shakley³, James A Colbert^{4

5}, Kathleen L Mulligan⁶, Mark W Friedberg^{4

6

3}

Affiliations

¹ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. iganguli@bwh.harvard.edu.
² Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. iganguli@bwh.harvard.edu.
³ Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ Memora Health, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁶ Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adult
Diagnostic Imaging
Health Expenditures
Humans
Insurance, Health
Low Back Pain* / diagnostic imaging
Medicare
United States / epidemiology

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