Total hospital costs for U.S. super-utilizers and other patients by payer 2012
This statistic displays the aggregate costs of hospital stays for super-utilizers and other patients in the United States in 2012, by payer. During this time, total hospital costs for Medicare super-utilizers between the ages of 1 and 64 years reached 10.7 billion U.S. dollars. A relatively large proportion of the United States' health care resources are consumed by a small percentage of the population, where about a quarter of the country's health expenses are incurred by 1 percent of the population.
