Levit K R, Lazenby H C, Cowan C A, Letsch S W
Health Aff (Millwood). 1993 Fall;12(3):7-26. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.12.3.7.
A new data set from the Health Care Financing Administration gives estimates of state spending for hospital care, physician services, and retail purchases of prescription drugs, which together account for 70 percent of health expenditures nationwide. Analysis of these data, which are the first uniform state data to be produced for nearly ten years, shows considerable variation among states and among regions in health care spending. The New England and Mideast regions show the consistently highest spending levels for all three categories; the Southwest and Rocky Mountain regions spent the smallest amount (as much as 17 percent below the U.S. average).
医疗保健财务管理局的一项新数据集给出了各州在医院护理、医生服务以及处方药零售购买方面的支出估算，这三项支出加起来占全国医疗支出的70%。对这些数据的分析显示，各州之间以及各地区之间在医疗保健支出方面存在显著差异。这些数据是近十年来首次编制的统一州级数据。新英格兰和中东地区在所有这三个类别上的支出水平一直最高；西南和落基山地区支出最少（比美国平均水平低多达17%）。
