How do health expenditures vary across the population?

(By Matthew McGough, Gary Claxton, Krutika Amin Twitter, and Cynthia Cox for The Kaiser Family Foundation published January 4, 2024)

In a given year, a small portion of the population is responsible for a very large percentage of total health spending. We tend to focus on averages when discussing health spending, but individuals’ health status – and thus their need to access and utilize healthcare – varies over the course of their lifetimes. In fact, very few people have spending around the average.

This collection of charts explores trends in health spending variation across the population through an analysis of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data. Continue reading here…

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