1% Of Population Accounts For 21.5% Of Health Care Expenditures, Mean Annual Per-Person Expenses Were $95,200 For The Highest Cost Consumers

In 2013, the 1% of the U.S. non-institutionalized population with the highest health care expenses accounted for 21.5% of the $1.4 trillion total health care expenditures with an annual mean expenditure of $95,200 per person. The 2013 per person expenditure for this group of consumers was 2.8% lower ($2,756) than the $97,956 mean annual expenditure in 2012. During 2012, the 1% with the highest expenditures accounted for 22.7% of the total $1.35 trillion in health care expenditures. Of those consumers ranked at the top 1% of the health care expenditure . . .