The Barnstable metropolitan area is one of the 10 highest-spending metropolitan areas in the nation when it comes to health care, according to a study released by Thomson Reuters.
Residents with employer-sponsored health plans in the Barnstable area spent $6,123 per person on health care in 2009. That places it at No. 6 on the Thomson Reuters list. The most expensive region for health care spending is Anderson, Ind., where the average spend is $7,231.
The lowest-spending metropolitan area in the United States is the Ogden-Clearfield region of Utah. In that area, people spent $2,623.
Thomson Reuters assessed the use and the cost of health care services for 23.5 million Americans in 382 metropolitan statistical areas in 2009 to compile the report.
