The concentration of health care expenditures, revisited
The concentration of health care expenditures, revisited
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DOI：
10.1377/hlthaff.20.2.9
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发表时间：
2001-03-01
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影响因子：
9.7
通讯作者：
Monheit, AC
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作者：
Berk, ML;Monheit, AC
在之前的两份出版物中，我们描述了医疗保健支出在平民、非制度化的美国人口中的分布，特别是在分布中最高支出者占总支出的份额方面。我们的重点显示出相当不平衡的分布，相对较小比例的人口占支出的很大份额。在本文中，我们更新了我们以前的表格（最后计算使用的数据超过十年的历史）与新的数据，从1996年的医疗支出小组调查（MEPS）。我们的研究结果表明，医疗保健支出的倾斜集中保持非常稳定; 5%的人口占医疗保健支出的大部分。
In two previous publications, we described the distribution of health care expenditures among the civilian, noninstitutionalized U.S. population, specifically in terms of the share of aggregate expenditures accounted for by the top spenders in the distribution. Our focus revealed considerably skewed distribution, with a relatively small proportion of the population accounting for a large share of expenditures. In this paper we update our previous tabulations (last computed using data more than a decade old) with new data from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). Our findings show that the skewed concentration of health care expenditures has remained very stable; 5 percent of the population accounts for the majority of health expenditures.