Healthcare Statistics
U.S. Healthcare Utilization Statistics
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) , which is part of the CDC, produces an annual reports on the health status of the United States. This publication, Health, United States, provides an overview of current data on healthcare utilization, resources, and expenditures. This publication examines all different aspects of the U.S. healthcare delivery system as well as assessing the health status of U.S. citizens. The following information is summarized from the 2015 publication.
U.S. Demographics and Healthcare
Life expectancy rates are an indication of the health of a designated population. Between 2004 and 2014, life expectancy at birth increased for females (1.1 years) to 81.4 years, white males (1.4 years) to 76.7 years, black females (2.3 years) to 78.4 years, and black males (3.1 years) to 72.5 years. Racial disparities exist in life expectancy at birth rates although they have narrowed. In 2014, the rate of white male life expectancy at birth was 4.2 years longer than that for black males, and the rate for white females was 3.0 years longer than that for black females. In 2014, Hispanic males (79.2 years) and females (84 years) had longer life expectancy rates than non-Hispanic white or non-Hispanic black males and females (CDC, 2016a).
Health Care Payers
Statistics from 2014 indicate that over 34% of personal health care expenses was paid by private health insurance, 23% was paid by Medicare, 17.4% by Medicaid, and nearly 1% was paid by consumers. The other 30% was paid by other types of programs and insurance. In 2014, the Medicare program had over 54 million enrollees with expenditures of nearly $613 billion an increase of $30 billion from 2013. The Medicare Part D drug program accounted for $78 billion up $8 billion from the previous year CDC (2016b).