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

Incremental 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 incremental outpatient costs per capita – meaning the top quintile – are located primarily in Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, Maine, Minnesota, Alaska, and South Dakota, with pockets located in Utah, Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, and Oregon.

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

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