Healthcare Expenditures Among People With High Expenses
This data visualization, based on data from AHRQ's Medical Expenditure Panel Survey from 2018 to 2022, shows dollar amounts spent on healthcare by people with high healthcare costs. The visualization allows users to explore the data by expenditure percentile (e.g., top 1%, top 5%) for mean expenses, condition (e.g., hypertension, diabetes), demographic group (age, race), payment source (e.g., Medicare), and type of service (e.g., inpatient stays).
Highlights:
- Expenses: After adjusting for inflation, people with the top 1 percent of expenses in 2022 had an average of $147,071 in healthcare expenditures during the year, which was approximately $30,000 lower than in 2021.
- Conditions: The most commonly treated condition among people with the top 5 percent of expenses in 2022 was hypertension (42.9%), followed by hyperlipidemia (35.6%), and musculoskeletal pain and back problems (30.6%).
- Categories-Age/Race: People ages 65 and older and non-Hispanic Whites were disproportionately represented in the above median expenditure tiers.
- Categories-Sources of Payment: Medicare and private insurance paid for approximately three-quarters of expenses for people in the top 5 percent expenditure tier in 2022.
- Categories-Type of Service: For people in the bottom 50 percent expenditure tier, more than half of their medical expenses were for ambulatory events.
Sources:
- MEPS Statistical Brief #560:
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