RevCycle Intelligence February 26, 2020
Additionally, the top 5% of the population accounted for over half of total healthcare spending in 2017, according to a new statistical brief from AHRQ.
The majority of total healthcare spending is concentrated in a small percentage of the population, according to a new statistical brief from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Using data from the agency’s Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component (MEPS-HC), researchers found that just 5 percent of the population accounted for over half (50.1 percent) of total healthcare spending in 2017, which represented nearly 18 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) that year.
Of these individuals, the top 1 percent of individuals ranked by their healthcare expenditures in 2017 represented about...
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