Medicare Spending Disparities Don't Improve Outcomes
533 views · Published 10 June 2009 · 4:06 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: Mayo Clinic · 2009 · News & Politics
Raymond Gibbons, M.D., a Mayo Clinic cardiologist and former president of the American Heart Association, describes the vast differences in Medicare spending per beneficiary, and how some local areas spend up to twice the national average while other areas in the same state spend far less while getting patient health outcomes that are just as good.
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