U.S. Health Care Spending Is Highly Focused on the Costliest Patients

May 3, 2016 SOURCE: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Differentials in the Concentration in the Level of Health Expenditures across Population Subgroups in the U.S., 2010. August 2015. Compiled by PGPF.

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