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Cost · Waste

Waste: overtreatment & low-value care

Amount
$88.5B
per year
Per resident, per year
$259
÷ 341.1M people
Per household, per year
$669
÷ 132.2M households

How it is built

$76–101B

Part of: Spread across national spending (overlapping estimates; do not add)

Problems this cost relates to

Sources: Shrank, Rogstad & Parekh, JAMA (2019)