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

Costs of Care per Capita for FFS Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with Heart Disease, 2015: Outpatient Costs, by county. This map shows the concentrations of counties with the highest outpatient costs per capita – meaning the top quintile – are located primarily in Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Maine, with pockets in Nevada, east central California, Oregon, and Washington.

Geographic Patterns: The average costs incurred by Outpatient 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 Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and California. Pockets of high-rate counties also were found in Alaska, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Texas.

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