Ohio Medicare and Medicaid per person spending

As mentioned yesterday, a new report in the journal Health Affairs examines per-person spending on health care in individual states. (Source: "Health Spending By State Of Residence, 1991-2004," Health Affairs.) The report also analyzed Medicaid and Medicare health care spending in Ohio based on numbers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Medicare spending per enrollee in Ohio in 2004 was $7,343, slightly below the national average of $7,439. That Ohio number equaled 19.5% of the state's total personal health care spending in 2004.

With regards to Medicaid, Ohio's spending per enrollee in 2004 was $7,439, well above the national average of $6,119 and accounting for 16.9% of Ohio's total personal health care spending. The report also states that between 1998 and 2004, the per enrollee average annual spending growth in Medicare in Ohio was 6.5%, while the per enrollee average annual spending growth in Medicaid spending in the state for the same time period was 4.5%. (Source: Exhibit 2 table, Health Affairs.)