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Persistency in High-Cost Health Care Claims: 'It's Where the Spending Is, Stupid'
Employee Benefit Research Institute [EBRI] Link to more items from this source
Oct. 25, 2019

"Twenty percent of the population accounted for 84 percent of total health spending ... 27 percent were in the top 10 percent of spending in at least one year, while 73 percent were never in the top 10 percent.... The 5.8 million individuals examined in this study used $38 billion in health care in 2017.... One-third of individuals persistently in the top 10 percent of claimants had diabetes.... Inpatient services accounted for 27 percent of total spending for those in the top 10 percent one or two years[.]"

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