A claims-based view of health care charges and utilization for commercially insured patients with osteoarthritis.

To evaluate managed care medical and pharmacy claims data from commercially insured patients with osteoarthritis and to examine cost and resource utilization patterns across inpatient care, outpatient care, emergency department, and pharmaceuticals.Retrospective claims-based analysis.Data were obtained from the PharMetrics/IMS Integrated Patient-Centric Database which contains medical and pharmacy claims for over 60 million Americans. Patients...