How much of US health care spending provides direct care or benefit to patients?

Plans to optimize health care in the United States highlight the high cost but rarely explore opportunities for redirecting resources within the existing system to increase access to care while lowering spending. This analysis indicates that, of the total national health care expenditures of $3.21 t...

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Published in:Cancer 2019-05, Vol.125 (9), p.1404-1409
Main Authors: Fredell, Morgan N., Kantarjian, Hagop M., Shih, Ya‐Chen Tina, Ho, Vivian, Mukherjee, Binata
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
benefits
Cost Savings
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Cross Infection - economics
Cross Infection - epidemiology
Cross Infection - therapy
Delivery of Health Care - economics
Delivery of Health Care - organization & administration
Delivery of Health Care - statistics & numerical data
Efficiency, Organizational - economics
Expenditures
Female
Fraud - economics
Fraud - statistics & numerical data
Health care
Health Care Costs - statistics & numerical data
Health care expenditures
Health Expenditures - statistics & numerical data
Health Services Misuse - economics
Health Services Misuse - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Insurance Coverage - economics
Insurance Coverage - statistics & numerical data
Male
Medical Errors - economics
Medical Errors - statistics & numerical data
Oncology
Patients
Quality of Health Care - economics
Quality of Health Care - statistics & numerical data
spending
Subtraction
United States
United States - epidemiology
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Summary:Plans to optimize health care in the United States highlight the high cost but rarely explore opportunities for redirecting resources within the existing system to increase access to care while lowering spending. This analysis indicates that, of the total national health care expenditures of $3.21 trillion in 2015, only $1.4 trillion to $2.86 trillion was used to provide care to patients. This range was reached by the subtraction of excess spending in 7 categories. Thus, many opportunities exist to repurpose wasted expenditures to increase access to health care without the need for additional funding. Plans to optimize health care in the United States highlight the high cost but rarely explore opportunities for redirecting resources within the existing system to increase access to care while lowering spending. Thus, many opportunities exist to repurpose wasted expenditures to increase access to health care without the need for additional funding.
ISSN:0008-543X
1097-0142
DOI:10.1002/cncr.31865