Cost of Care for Medicare Beneficiaries Diagnosed with Heart Disease – Inpatient Costs

Costs of Care per Capita for FFS Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with Heart Disease, 2015: Inpatient Costs, by county. This map shows the concentrations of counties with the highest inpatient costs per capita – meaning the top quintile – are located primarily in pockets of south Texas, North Carolina, Kentucky, Michigan, central California, Nevada, Arkansas, Missouri, Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, and New York.

Geographic Patterns: The average costs incurred by Inpatient Medicare Beneficiary diagnosed with heart disease in 2020 by County. The map shows that the concentrations of counties with the highest average cost of care – meaning the top quintile – are located primarily in Georgia, Alaska, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Kentucky, Ohio, Connecticut Massachusetts, Arizona, California, South Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota. Pockets of high-rate counties also were found in Puerto Rico, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, New York, Michigan Illinois, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Nebraska, Wyoming, and North Dakota.

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