According to an August statistical brief from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the top 1 percent of the U.S. healthcare users accounted for 21.4 percent of total health expenditures in 2010. The top 25 percent absorbed roughly 86.4 percent of health spending.
Here are 50 statistics on healthcare utilization and expenditures by population in 2010, according to the AHRQ brief.
Overall
Top 1 percent
Health expenditures: 21.4 percent
Mean expenditures: $87,570
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