The average Medicare payment for a person with Alzheimer’s or other dementias is roughly three times higher than patients without those conditions. Medicaid payments are 19 times higher.
By 2050, the Alzheimer’s Association estimated the healthcare costs of Alzheimer’s, the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States, will be $1.1 trillion, which includes a 500 percent increase in combined Medicare and Medicaid spending.
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