1 / 6

How much does the U.S. spend to treat different diseases?

How much does the U.S. spend to treat different diseases?. Circulatory conditions, such as heart attacks and high blood pressure, are the largest category of spending. Total expenditures in $ billions by disease category, 2010.

jana
Download Presentation

How much does the U.S. spend to treat different diseases?

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. How much does the U.S. spend to treat different diseases?

  2. Circulatory conditions, such as heart attacks and high blood pressure, are the largest category of spending Total expenditures in $ billions by disease category, 2010 Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis Health Care Satellite Account (Blended Account) Note: Expenditures on nursing home and dental care are not included in health services spending by disease.

  3. Spending on the highest cost diseases has increased at varying rates Total expenditures in $ billions by disease category, 2000 - 2010 Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis Health Care Satellite Account (Blended Account) Note: Expenditures on nursing home and dental care are not included in health services spending by disease.

  4. About a third of medical services cost growth was from ill-defined, musculoskeletal, and circulatory conditions Contribution to medical services expenditure growth, by disease, 2000 - 2010 Source: Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of Bureau of Economic Analysis Health Care Satellite Account (Blended Account) Note: Expenditures on nursing home and dental care are not included in health services spending by disease.

  5. The cost per case grew faster for infectious diseases than any other disease category Average annual growth in price index by disease category, 2000 - 2010 Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis Health Care Satellite Account (Blended Account) Note: Expenditures on nursing home and dental care are not included in health services spending by disease.

  6. The number of treated cases grew fastest for ill-defined conditions and endocrine disorders Average annual increase in real expenditures by disease category, 2000 - 2010 Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis Health Care Satellite Account (Blended Account)

More Related