The score is worse than the disease: which states have the most expensive medicine

According to the new report Forbes Advisor, South Dakota has the highest health care costs in the country. Louisiana came in second, followed by West Virginia, Florida and Wyoming. The Hill.

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Nebraska, Maine, Delaware, New Hampshire and Oklahoma round out the top XNUMX most expensive states.

Although South Dakota is located in the Midwest, the states with the highest health care spending tend to be in the eastern part of the country.

The researchers used data from the Kaiser Family Foundation to create a score reflecting 11 indicators of healthcare affordability.

Per capita health care spending, including out-of-pocket spending on all privately and publicly funded health care services, had the highest weight in each state's estimate. It also includes the cost of inpatient care, physician services and prescription drugs. The total represents the average of the three years of data collected between 2018 and 2020.

The average cost of health care per person in South Dakota was $11, placing it ninth overall in personal health care spending. Nearly half of the adults in the state reported not receiving mental health treatment due to the cost.

Between 2019 and 2020, 12 percent of families in the state reported struggling to pay their child's medical bills, comparable to those seen in Nebraska, Kansas and Indiana. However, more than 12 percent of families in Wyoming, Florida and Texas said they have struggled with this financial hurdle.

Over a five-year period, South Dakota ranked third in per capita health spending growth, at 24,4 percent. It was only surpassed by New York and Hawaii.

When it comes to premiums and deductibles, the state had the third highest annual health insurance deductible for employer-provided insurance among those with uniform coverage. For those with individual plans in the Affordable Care Act marketplace, South Dakota ranked sixth in highest annual health insurance premium.

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South Dakota is one of 12 states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, although the measure is up for a vote in the 2022 midterm elections.

Louisiana ranks second in the ranking of the most expensive medical services in the country. Residents who have employer-sponsored insurance coverage pay some of the highest premiums in the nation, while between 2016 and 2020, the state ranked fifth in growth in total per capita healthcare spending.

One worker spends an average of $1740 a year (the sixth largest amount in the country) on insurance premiums. Plus-one employees pay $4 (the highest in the country), while employees with a family plan pay $685 per year (the second highest in the country).

People West Virginia those with private health insurance in the Affordable Care Act market paid the fourth-highest annual premiums in the nation ($8024).

The state ranked seventh in the nation in total health care spending per person ($12).

People Florida with employer-provided family health insurance pay the highest annual premiums in the country ($7), and residents with one extra person in their employer-based health plan pay the second highest annual premium in the country ($079,33). ,4), second only to Louisiana. In Florida, almost 684,67 percent of adults reported not seeing a doctor because of concerns about the cost of healthcare.

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People wyoming with an Affordable Care Act individual health plan paid the highest annual premium in the country ($9620). This is $1400 more than the second-highest average cost (Alaska - $13,188).

People West Virginia ranked eighth in per capita healthcare spending growth over a five-year period, with West Virginians spending 2020% more on healthcare in 21,75 than in 2016.

West Virginia residents with an individual health plan paid $12,019.

Of the 10 most expensive states, residents Delaware spent the most on healthcare per capita, totaling $12.

At the other end of the spectrum in Michigan ($9,524) was the cheapest healthcare, followed by Washington ($ 8,839), Nevada ($ 8,118), Hawaii (9,593) and New Mexico ($8,505) respectively (contribution per capita).

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