“…Only one database, the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, was used in more than one of the included studies. The included studies analyzed costs within a number of different medical insurance settings; 6 studies reported costs for privately insured patients (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14), 3 studies reported costs for patients enrolled in Medicaid programs (15) (16) (11), and 1 study reported costs for patients enrolled in Medicare (17). Additionally, 3 studies utilized patient data from large, national databases and used weighting to generalize their findings to be representative of the entire US population (18) (19) (20).…”