Chronic Care Background
The Financial Factor
- People with chronic conditions account for a majority of all healthcare
spending.
- 60% of all healthcare spending is for the 24% of the population with multiple chronic conditions and 16% of spending is for the 3% of the population with 5 or more conditions.
- 99% of Medicare
spending is for people with at least one chronic condition
and 68% is for individuals with 5 or more chronic conditions.
Source:
"Chronic Conditions: Making the Case for Ongoing Care," Partnership
for Solutions (Johns Hopkins University and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation),
September 2004 Update.