Most Expensive Places For Health Care - Forbes.com

By Rebecca Ruiz What Miami patients may fail to realize, however, is that their care is the most expensive in the country. The cost of treating the average Medicare patient was $16,351 in 2006, the last year for which data was available. That's twice the national average. (Medicare data provide the most uniform and publicly available source of health care spending and often mirrors trends in the private sector.) Worse yet, the extra spending doesn't yield better health outcomes. The same is true in markets across the country, including Los Angeles, Dallas, and Newark, N.J., where it costs $10,810, $10,103 and $10,467, respectively, to treat a Medicare patient. Read More