TABLE 22.

Average annual per‐person payments by type of service and race/ethnicity for Medicare beneficiaries age 65 and older, with Alzheimer's or other dementias, in 2023 dollars.

Race/ethnicity	Total Medicare payments	Hospital care	Physician care	Skilled nursing home care	Home health care	Hospice care
White	22,306	5,791	3,725	3,297	1,912	4,137
Black	27,814	9,006	4,528	4,338	1,970	2,910
Hispanic	25,729	7,836	4,298	3,763	2,371	3,416
Other	22,864	7,260	3,917	3,663	1,959	2,817

Created from unpublished data from the National 100% Sample Medicare Fee‐for‐Service Beneficiaries for 2019. ⁴¹²