Health & Medicinearticle2026-09-02

Health Care Leaders’ Views About Remotely Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy–Based Services for High-Impact Chronic Pain

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Abstract

Chronic musculoskeletal pain remains a vexing clinical challenge, and health care systems have struggled to identify effective, scalable, and safe treatment alternatives to opioids and other higher-risk interventions. Remotely delivered cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic pain (CBT-CP) offers an evidence-based approach to meet this need.

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View paper (DOI)Open access versionOpenAlexThe Permanente JournalPublished 2026-09-02

Authors: Jennifer L. Schneider, Charles Elder, Alison Firemark, Carmit McMullen, Meghan Mayhew, Benjamin H. Balderson, Morgan Justice, Christine Rini, Lynn DeBar

Institutions: Northwestern University, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute