Health Care Spending on Diabetes in the U.S., 1996–2013

OBJECTIVE Health care spending on diabetes in the U.S. has increased dramatically over the past several decades. This research describes health care spending on diabetes to quantify how that spending has changed from 1996 to 2013 and to determine what drivers are increasing spending. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Spending estimates were extracted from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s Disease Expenditure 2013 database. Estimates...