Medical Economics February 19, 2025
Richard Payerchin

New study outlines health care spending down to the county level.

The United States spends, in aggregate, billions of dollars on health care.

Among the 50 states, some states spend more per person on health care, and some have much lower per capita expenditures, for greater or lower total spending amounts.

“Tracking U.S. Health Care Spending by Health Condition and County” was published Feb. 14 in JAMA. Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine’s Institute for Health Metrics...

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