Fig. 10

ASR-Adjusted Medicare Mortality versus Total Medicare Spending. Depicted is a lack of an association between hospital referral region-level Medicare Parts A & B spending per 1000 Louisianan Medicare beneficiaries and age, sex, and race (ASR)-adjusted Medicare mortality per 1000 Medicare beneficiaries. From left-to-right, the referral regions with the two lowest spending rates are Houma and Lake Charles, respectively. From right-to-left, the referral regions with the two highest spending rates are Monroe and Metairie, respectively (Dartmouth Atlas Project, 2014)