People With Multiple Chronic Conditions Drive Bulk of Group Health Plan Spending
June
16
The share of group health insurance plan enrollees with high health care spending increased from 2013 to 2021, and over 80% of them in 2021 had one or more chronic diseases, according to two studies from the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
By analyzing health care claims of millions of enrollees in a group health plan from the Merative MarketScan Commercial Database, the study found that the share of enrollees incurring spending $100,000 or more per year on health care went up 50%, from 0.6% in 2013 to 0.9% in 2021. The group with the highest spending ($2,000,000 or more) was 2.5 times larger in 2021 compared to 2013.
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