Study identifies persistently high-cost Medicare patient trends

Persistently high-cost Medicare patients tend to be younger, members of racial or ethnic minority groups, dual-eligible Medicaid patients or suffering from end-stage renal disease (ESRD), a new study reports. Medicare patients in the top 10% of spending each year accounted for almost 20% of Medicare’s overall spending during the three-year period covered by the study, published in the January issue of Health Affairs.
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