Figure 1.

Mean and Median Annual Per‐Patient Medicare Spending for Breast, Prostate, Lung, and Colorectal Cancer in the Year of Diagnosis and in the Year of Death [Color figure can be viewed at http://wileyonlinelibrary.com]

Note: (A) The height of the columns represents mean spending. The orange diamond represents the median spending, with the corresponding orange whiskers representing the 25th to 75th interquartile range (IQR). Mean spending in the year of diagnosis included the 12 months beginning with the month of diagnosis, regardless of the month of death (patients contribute $0 after death). Mean spending in the year of death included the 11 months prior to death and the month of death, regardless of the timing of the cancer diagnosis. (B) Mean and median annual per‐patient Medicare spending for breast, prostate, lung, and colorectal cancer in the year of diagnosis and in the year of death, stratified by stage at diagnosis.