Incremental Cost of Care for Medicare Beneficiaries Diagnosed with Heart Disease – Inpatient Costs
Geographic Patterns: The average costs incurred by Inpatient Medicare Beneficiaries with heart disease above and beyond the costs incurred among beneficiaries without heart disease in 2020 by County. The map shows that the concentrations of counties with the highest average Incremental cost of care – meaning the top quintile – are located primarily in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana, Arizona, California, and Alaska. Pockets of high-rate counties also were found in Puerto Rico, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Virginia, Indiana, Pennsylvania, North Dakota, New Mexico, Kansas, and Nebraska.
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