Cody Horst

TL;DR: Modeled estimates of US spending on personal health care and public health showed substantial increases from 1996 through 2013; with spending on diabetes, ischemic heart disease, and low back and neck pain accounting for the highest amounts of spending by disease category.

TL;DR: National spending estimates stratified by health condition, age group, sex, type of care, and type of payer and modeled for each year from 1996 through 2016 show low back and neck pain had the highest amount of health care spending in 2016.

TL;DR: Increases in US health care spending from 1996 through 2013 were largely related to increases in health care service price and intensity but were also positively associated with population growth and aging and negatively associated with disease prevalence or incidence.

TL;DR: The findings provide health policy makers and health care professionals with evidence to help guide future spending and some conditions, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and inpatient well-newborn care, had larger health care spending growth rates than other conditions.

TL;DR: Health care spending on diabetes in the U.S. has increased, and spending per encounter has been the biggest driver, and this information can help policy makers who are attempting to control future Spending on diabetes.