New Studies Shed Light on How, Why Health Care Spending Varies Across U.S.
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Feb 21, 2025
The utilization rate of health care services — the number of visits, admissions, or prescriptions per incident or prevalent case — is the primary driver of health care spending variation across the nation, according to two recent JAMA studies.
The researchers who conducted one of the studies analyzed data from 3,110 counties across four payer types, seven care categories, 148 health conditions and 38 age-sex groups, which accounted for 76.6% of personal health care expenditures between 2010 and 2019. The study estimated that health care spending grew from $1.7 trillion in 2010 to $2.4 trillion in 2019.
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