Medicaid spending as a percent of total U.S. health expenditure by service 2022

Medicaid continues to provide comprehensive long-term care in the United States. In 2022, the program was estimated to have paid for 34.2 percent of all home health care and nearly 30 percent of nursing home care. In addition, Medicaid covered over 58 percent of other health, residential, and personal care, which includes payments for intermediate care facilities and other home- and community-based services.Health care spending in the U.S.Medicaid expenditure accounted for around 16 percent of all U.S. health expenditures in 2021. Overall, health spending in the United States totaled 4.1 trillion U.S. dollars in 2020 – hospital care continues to be the largest spending category. Around 1.3 trillion U.S. dollars was spent on hospital care in 2020, and expenditures are projected to continue on an upward trajectory.The high price of hospital careMedicare and Medicaid spend significant amounts of money on national health services, and for both programs, hospital care is the largest expense category. Hospital care spending by both Medicare and Medicaid grew by around 20 percent between 2013 and 2019. During the same period, private health insurance spending in this service category accelerated, rising by approximately 90 billion U.S. dollars.

美国医疗保险项目持续为该国提供全面的长期护理服务。截至2022年，该项目预计承担了所有家庭健康护理费用的34.2%，以及大约30%的养老院护理费用。此外，医疗保险还覆盖了超过58%的其他健康、居住和个人护理费用，其中包括对中间护理设施及其他基于家庭和社区服务的支付。在美国，医疗保健支出中，医疗保险在2021年约占所有医疗支出的16%。总体而言，2020年美国的医疗保健总支出达到了41万亿美元——医院护理依然是最大的支出类别。2020年，医院护理支出约为1.3万亿美元，预计支出将持续增长。医院护理的高昂费用导致医疗保险和医疗保险在提供国家健康服务方面投入了大量资金，且对于这两个项目来说，医院护理都是最大的支出项目。在2013年至2019年期间，医疗保险和医疗保险在医院的护理支出增长了约20%。在同一时期，私人医疗保险在这一服务类别的支出也呈加速增长态势，增加了约900亿美元。