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

Costs of Care per Capita for FFS Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with Heart Disease, 2015: Total Costs, by county. This map shows the concentrations of counties with the highest total costs per capita – meaning the top quintile – are located primarily in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Florida, and West Virginia, with pockets in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, and Utah.

Geographic Patterns: The average costs incurred by all 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 Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, California, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Ohio. Pockets of high-rate counties also were found in Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, and Nevada.

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