How to solve the financial burden of GI diseases in the US (AGA)

GI diseases are responsible for millions of health care encounters and hundreds of thousands of deaths that annually cost billions of dollars in the U.S. To provide the latest statistics, Dr. Anne F. Peery and colleagues have published an update in Gastroenterology: Burden and Cost of Gastrointestinal, Liver and Pancreatic Diseases in the United States: Update 2021. To remedy the financial burden, they recommend clinical and public health efforts coupled with research funding.