Per capita health care spending on diabetes: 2009-2013
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Issue brief (Health Care Cost Institute)
- Author(s):
- Shakiba, Patrick, author Frost, Amanda, author
- Contributor(s):
- Health Care Cost Institute, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC, : Health Care Cost Institute, May 2015
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Cost of Illness Diabetes Mellitus -- economics Health Expenditures -- statistics & numerical data Health Expenditures -- trends Adolescent Adult Child Forecasting Health Benefit Plans, Employee Hypoglycemic Agents -- economics Infant Middle Aged Humans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Diabetes is a costly chronic condition in the United States, medical costs and productivity loss attributable to diabetes were estimated to be $245 billion in 2012.1 In this issue brief, for individuals covered by employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) and younger than age 65, per capita spending for people with a diagnosis of diabetes was compared to those without a diagnosis for the years 2009 through 2013. During that period, spending for individuals with diabetes increased by roughly $1,000 to about $15,000 per capita. The average per capita spending difference between people with and without diabetes was $10,310 (Figure 1). Additionally, during this period, people with diabetes spent on average 2.5 times more out of pocket than people without diabetes. Among individuals with diabetes, children (ages 0 through 18) and pre-Medicare adults (ages 55 through 64) were the two groups with the highest per capita health care spending in every year of the study period.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (12 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101711633 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101711633