CMS: 1991-2014 Health Care Spending by State, 6 Key Findings

1. Considerable regional variation on personal health care spending
2. Similar growth in Medicaid expansion and non-expansion states
3. Impact of recent economic recession and recovery: every state experienced slower growth in per capita personal health care spending
4. Medicare: States with above average per enrollee Medicare spending were generally located in the eastern U.S. while states with the lowest spending were generally in the west.
5. Medicaid: Total Medicaid spending increased 12.3% from 2013-2014 for Medicaid expansion states, compared with 6.2% for states that did not. However, on a per enrollee basis spending declined
6. Private Health Insurance: Per enrollee spending was $4,551 in 2014, an average annual increase of 3.3 percent since 2009

Source: CMS
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