Medical Economics February 24, 2025
Key Takeaways
- The study analyzed 40 billion insurance claims and hospital data to assess U.S. healthcare spending from 2010 to 2019.
- Significant intra-state spending variations were observed, with some counties spending 30-40% more or less than state averages.
- Utilization, rather than prices, accounted for 65% of spending variation, highlighting the impact of healthcare service usage on costs.
Author describes origin of new cost breakdown on health care spending over a decade.
Patients and various insurers spend a lot of money on health care in the United States.
Here is how much: $2.4 trillion in 2019, according to a new, massive study of health care spending from 2010 to 2019.
Researchers made a deep dive into data for “Tracking...
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