High-Cost Patient Spotlight
Top-decile cutoff:
$509,540
This week's exemplar:
$1,048,378
Spending percentile:
98.4th
Decision takeaway:
The highest-spending 10% of patients account for
43.2% of total healthcare spending.
The large gap between mean and median spending and the
Gini coefficient of 0.611 show that costs are concentrated
among a relatively small group of high-cost patients.