# US states by personal health care spending per person, by state of residence, 2020

All 51 values come from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary for 2020, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `personal_health_care_per_capita_usd`
- Unit: USD
- Definition: Spending on personal health care (hospital, physician and clinical, dental and other professional services, home health and nursing care, prescription drugs, other medical products and other personal care) for residents of each state, wherever the care was received, divided by the state's resident population, in US dollars per person.
- Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, CMS Health Expenditures by State of Residence, 1991 to 2020: personal health care per capita (US_PER_CAPITA20) (https://www.cms.gov/data-research/statistics-trends-and-reports/national-health-expenditure-data/state-residence)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/centers-for-medicare-and-medicaid-services
- Retrieved: 2026-10-18
- Citation: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group. CMS Health Expenditures by State of Residence, 1991 to 2020: personal health care per capita (US_PER_CAPITA20). https://www.cms.gov/data-research/statistics-trends-and-reports/national-health-expenditure-data/state-residence. Retrieved 2026-10-18.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/personal-health-care-spending-per-person/us-states

| Rank | Place | USD |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | District of Columbia | 14,381 |
| 2 | New York | 14,007 |
| 3 | Alaska | 13,642 |
| 4 | Massachusetts | 13,319 |
| 5 | Delaware | 12,899 |
| 6 | West Virginia | 12,769 |
| 7 | Vermont | 12,756 |
| 8 | South Dakota | 12,495 |
| 9 | Connecticut | 12,489 |
| 10 | Maine | 12,077 |
| 11 | New Jersey | 11,868 |
| 12 | New Hampshire | 11,793 |
| 13 | Rhode Island | 11,694 |
| 14 | Pennsylvania | 11,603 |
| 15 | North Dakota | 11,301 |
| 16 | Wyoming | 10,989 |
| 17 | Minnesota | 10,846 |
| 18 | Maryland | 10,839 |
| 19 | Indiana | 10,517 |
| 20 | Louisiana | 10,515 |
| 21 | Nebraska | 10,514 |
| 22 | Ohio | 10,478 |
| 23 | California | 10,299 |
| 24 | Hawaii | 10,291 |
| 25 | Kentucky | 10,257 |
| 26 | Montana | 10,212 |
| 27 | Illinois | 10,190 |
| 28 | Oregon | 10,071 |
| 29 | Wisconsin | 9,982 |
| 30 | Missouri | 9,921 |
| 31 | Michigan | 9,897 |
| 32 | Florida | 9,865 |
| 33 | Iowa | 9,789 |
| 34 | Oklahoma | 9,444 |
| 35 | Kansas | 9,408 |
| 36 | Mississippi | 9,394 |
| 37 | Arkansas | 9,338 |
| 38 | Tennessee | 9,336 |
| 39 | Alabama | 9,280 |
| 40 | Washington | 9,265 |
| 41 | Virginia | 9,195 |
| 42 | North Carolina | 8,917 |
| 43 | New Mexico | 8,902 |
| 44 | South Carolina | 8,766 |
| 45 | Georgia | 8,758 |
| 46 | Arizona | 8,756 |
| 47 | Colorado | 8,583 |
| 48 | Texas | 8,406 |
| 49 | Nevada | 8,348 |
| 50 | Idaho | 8,148 |
| 51 | Utah | 7,522 |