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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Board Fam Med. 2009;22(1):62–68. doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2009.01.080102

Figure 1. Increases in Use of Various Services for Low Back Pain.

Figure 1

(1a.) Lumbar spine magnetic resonance imaging (CPT codes 72148, 72149, 72158), numbers of scans among Medicare beneficiaries, from Part B claims; (1b.) Numbers of opioid prescriptions for spine conditions, national data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, reference 11 (1c.) Rates of lumbosacral injections in the Medicare population, age- and sex-adjusted. Data are from reference 1, adapted with permission.(1d.) Lumbar spine fusion rates for degenerative conditions, age- and sex-adjusted, National Inpatient Sample, from reference 2, reproduced with permission.