Variation in Health Care Spending: Target Decision Making, Not Geography

by InstituteofMedicine (Author), Boardon Health Care Services (Author), Ashna Kibria (Editor), Alan M . Garber (Editor), Michelle Mancher (Editor), Margaret A . Mc Coy (Editor), RobinP.Graham (Editor), JosephP.Newhouse (Editor), Committeeon Geographic Variationin Health Care Spe (Author)

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  2013

  $44.24

  Health care in the United States is more expensive than in other developed countries, costing $2.7 trillion in 2011, or 17.9 percent of the national gross domestic product. This book investigates geographic variation in health care spending and quality for Medicare beneficiaries as well as other populations.