"We did an earlier study on cost data from the 2007 NHIS, which was not directly comparable to this one because of differences in survey design," said Richard L. Nahin, Ph.D., NCCIH's lead epidemiologist and lead author of the expenditures on complementary health approaches analysis. "However, globally, in both years, substantial numbers of Americans spent billions of dollars out-of-pocket on these approaches, an indication that users believe enough in the value of these approaches to pay for them."
Read more about this report and other data on the use of complementary health approaches: https://nccih.nih.gov/research/statistics/NHIS/2012.
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