Economic modeling study demonstrates substantial increases in US health care spending, highlighting diabetes, heart disease, and back pain as the costliest conditions.
Modeled estimates of US spending on personal health care and public health showed substantial increases from 1996 through 2013; with spending on diabetes, ischemic heart disease, and low back and neck pain accounting for the highest amounts of spending by disease category. The rate of change in annual spending varied considerably among different conditions and types of care. This information may have implications for efforts to control US health care spending.
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