DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 7 (July)

Benchmark of the Week: Top 10 states with highest claims volume

Summary: Do the states with the most Medicare patients bill the most services? Not necessarily, according to these two charts, which show the 10 states with the highest number of claims per patient and their total patient population as of 2008. NOTE: Claims data per state was calculated by combining geographic practice cost index (GPCI) locations, while patient enrollment was provided at the state level by CMS. Because one GPCI spans multiple states (the District of Columbia GPCI includes suburbs of Maryland and Virginia), the claims per patient figures are an approximation.

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