Health Care Expenditures of Immigrants in the United States: A Nationally Representative Analysis
Sarita A. Mohanty, MD, MPH,
Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH,
David U. Himmelstein, MD,
Susmita Pati, MD, MPH,
Olveen Carrasquillo, MD, MPH and
David H. Bor, MD
Sarita A. Mohanty is with the Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric and General Internal Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Steffie Woolhandler, David U. Himmelstein, and David H. Bor are with the Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Mass. Susmita Pati is with The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Olveen Carrasquillo is with the Division of General Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY.

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FIGURE 1— Percentile distributions of total 1998 health care expenditures of US-born persons and immigrants residing in the United States in 1998.
Note. Dollar figures are for median total health care expenditures within each decile.
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