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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Pain. 2015 May;156(5):951–957. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000137

Table 3.

Distribution of total incremental health care costs by source of payment among U.S. children (6-17 y of age) with pain-related conditions (in billions of USD, 2014) as compared with children without pain-related conditions.

Source of payment Percent of total health care costs Total incremental health care costs (in billions of USD) 95% CI, billion USD
Total costs 100 11.8 2.18-21.5
Private insurance 44 5.19 0.96-9.48
Medicaid 34 4.01 0.66-7.35
Out of pocket 16 1.89 0.35-3.45
Other sources 6 0.71 0.13-1.29

Dollar amounts were adjusted for Inflation to reflect 2013 dollar costs using the medical care component of the consumer price index.

Other sources of costs include other federal, other state and local, other private, other public, and other unclassified sources.

Source: 2008 MEPS.

CI, confidence interval; MEPS, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey; USD, U.S. dollar.