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

Incremental 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 incremental total costs per capita – meaning the top quintile – are located primarily in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Florida, with pockets located in southern California, Nevada, Wyoming, South Dakota, southeastern Utah, eastern Illinois, and West Virginia.

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

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