Pain is a personal experience and patient–provider communication therefore an essential part of diagnosis and treatment where the patient’s perspective needs to be central. The aim of this descriptive cross-sectional study was to investigate chronic-pain-related patient–provider communication in the context of sociodemographic variables, pain variables, perceived outcome of care, and satisfaction with health care providers. A postal questionnaire measuring socio-demographic variables, pain characteristics, pain-related health care utilization and patient–provider communication was sent to a sample of 4,500 individuals randomly drawn from the national population of Iceland.