Table 2.
Number of Counties and Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries and Per Capita Spending by Concentration of Chronic Conditions Classification and Metropolitan Status in US Counties, 2017
| Per capita FFS medicare spending ($) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Map classification | Number of counties | Medicare FFS beneficiaries (%) | All counties (n = 3142) | Large (central/fringe) metro counties (n = 436) | Medium/small metro counties (n = 730) | Non-metro counties (n = 1976) |
| Net number of conditions in ≤10th percentile | −9 to −16 | 143 | 406,737 (1.2%) | 7004 | 6689 | 6647 | 7088 |
| −4 to −8 | 283 | 2,010,452 (6.0%) | 7629 | 8100 | 7525 | 7500 | |
| −1 to −3 | 557 | 4,182,983 (12.4%) | 8553 | 8735 | 8335 | 8606 | |
| Net number of conditions in >10th and <90th percentile | 0 | 1069 | 11,013,963 (32.8%) | 9610 | 9949 | 9344 | 9352 |
| Net number of conditions in ≥90th percentile | 1 to 3 | 774 | 10,057,704 (29.9) | 10,294 | 10,645 | 9910 | 10,082 |
| 4 to 8 | 303 | 5,625,528 (16.7%) | 10,871 | 10,988 | 10,680 | 10,814 | |
| 9 to 16 | 13 | 320,894 (1.0%) | 12,767 | 12,920 | 12,152 | 11,910 | |
| Total | 3142 | 33,618,261 | 9774 | 10,275 | 9431 | 9282 | |
FFS, fee-for-service.