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United States Health Care Spending Variation 2019

General Info

Provider 
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Geography 
United States of America (USA)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
January, 2019 - December, 2019
Data type
Estimate
Summary 

The Disease Expenditure Project (DEX) at IHME analyzed estimates for US spending on health care across 3,110 US counties to examine cost variation in 2019. Data for 4 key drivers of per capita spending were extracted for 3110 US counties, 148 health conditions, 38 age-sex groups, 4 payers, and 7 types of care. Service utilization was measured as service volume per prevalent case, while price and intensity was measured as spending per visit, admission, or prescription. This dataset contains the results of Das Gupta and Shapley decomposition methods and linear regression used to estimate the contribution of each factor.

Keywords 
Health care expenditures

Citation

Contributors 
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Funders 
Gates Ventures
Peterson Center on Healthcare
Publisher 
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Publication year 
2025
Suggested citation 
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). United States Health Care Spending Variation 2019. Seattle, United States of America: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), 2025.

Files (4)

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Binary Data Data release information sheet98.26 KB
Binary Data Estimates [CSV]26.04 KB
Binary Data Data dictionary [XLSX]15.46 KB
Binary Data Data input sources [XLSX]28.31 KB

Source URL:https://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/ihme-data/us-health-care-spending-variation-cause-county-2019