Migraine
Migraine is more than a headache. An attack can blur your vision and make it hard to think. It can break into sleep, work, and home life, even when you look fine to others. This five-year plan shows routine care, added care, and urgent care as separate costs.
Estimated healthcare costs you pay and other financial effects across the care timeline.
Estimated impact to you over five years
$2,255-$39,750
Estimated healthcare costs you pay plus costs beyond the medical bill, such as missed earnings. Total medical spending is shown separately and is not added again; it already includes the healthcare portion you may pay. Without coverage or when paying cash, your actual healthcare costs may be much higher than this estimate.
Evaluation & Diagnosis
Months 0-3A history, neurologic exam, and headache diary establish the pattern; imaging is reserved for warning signs or an unusual exam.
Five-year total treatment: Initial five-year evaluation
Standard of care: AHS (2021)
Estimated total impact to you
$160-$1,600
Standard of care
These care steps follow guidelines from these medical groups.
- American Headache Society: Consensus Statement: Update on Integrating New Migraine Treatments into Clinical Practice (2021)
Diagnosis, attack medicines, and prevention.
- American Academy of Neurology / American Headache Society: Pharmacologic treatment for episodic migraine prevention in adults (2012)
Preventive medicines like topiramate.
- American Headache Society: Evidence assessment of parenteral treatment of acute migraine in the emergency department (2016)
Emergency room migraine care.