Medicare Coverage of Acupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain: Does It Move the Needle on the Opioid Crisis?

Kevin T. Liou; Deborah Korenstein; Jun J. Mao

doi:10.1007/s11606-020-05871-6

Medicare Coverage of Acupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain: Does It Move the Needle on the Opioid Crisis?

Kevin T. Liou
, Deborah Korenstein
, Jun J. Mao

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19 Scopus citations

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	527-529
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of General Internal Medicine
Volume	36
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-05871-6
State	Published - Feb 2021
Externally published	Yes

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