Health Care Spending for Seven Chronic Conditions by Rurality: A National Chartbook

Healthcare spending patterns reveal how the healthcare delivery system responds to disease burden across communities, yet most national spending estimates lack the geographic granularity needed to understand rural-urban differences in care for major chronic conditions. This project will create a chartbook, detailing condition-specific spending at the county level, focusing on seven chronic conditions: heart disease, diabetes, substance use disorder, mental health, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, and neurologic disorders. The chartbook will describe variation in spending by across the rural-urban continuum, both nationally and by Census Division. This resource will help support rural-focused conversations about resource allocation and care delivery priorities.