Miami’s Medicare Costs Highest in the Nation

Medicare data indicates that health care costs in Miami, Florida are the highest in the United States, with annual per capita costs at $18,199 in 2008, which was about twice the national average of $9,103 for that year. The 170,386 Medicare beneficiaries in the Miami hospital referral region (HRR) had total costs of $3.1 billion. Adjusting and standardizing the cost and utilization data to reflect risk reduced the per capita cost to $10,145—still higher than the national average and more than $500 higher than the next highest standardized risk-adjusted per capita cost of . . .