Contact: Minnesota APCD
Email: health.apcd@state.mn.us
The Minnesota Department of Health released an analysis of chronic pain management services based on data from the state's APCD. This report is one of several based on APCD data that was specifically authorized by the state legislature in 2014.
Based on this research, the Minnesota Department of Health has found that about 83,000 Minnesotans a year received chronic pain procedures during a three-year period. From the report's press release, "The overall volume of chronic pain procedures has increased from 2010 to 2012 by 13.2 percent. In 2012, 518 chronic pain procedures were performed for every 10,000 covered Minnesotans within the state, or roughly one procedure for every 19 persons. The analysis also showed that female patients accounted for 62 percent of procedures, and patients over age 60 accounted for 44 percent. The analysis did not include treatments for acute pain, such as that experienced after surgery."