tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 38

RESEARCH & REPORT: Northeast Spends Most On Health Care

Do generous Medicaid benefits play a role? Someone living in the Northeast spends about $1,000 more per year on health care than the national average, and about $2,000 more than folks living in some Western states, reports a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) study published in Health Affairs.Compared to the $5,283 per capita average, folks in Massachusetts, Maine, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia and Pennsylvania spent $6,346 per capita in 2004."There is no one clear explanation, but there are several similar characteristics among these states," says...

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