Pennsylvania Health Care Performance
Pennsylvania Health Care Performance
Pennsylvania
Ranking Highlightsa How Health Care
Performance Changed in
Rank Among Pennsylvaniaᵇ
National Mid-Atlantic
Rank States*
10
Overall 9 of 51 3 of 6
17
Reproductive & Women’s Health 16 2
Access & Affordability 9 2
Prevention & Treatment 13 3
23
Avoidable Hospital Use & Cost 23 2
Healthy Lives 23 5 ● Indicators That Improved
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Worse-than-average overall performance
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Better-than-average overall performance SC MO AK
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MS
Preventable hospitalizations ages 18–64 Hospital 30-day readmission rate age 65 and older
Potentially avoidable emergency department visits ages 18–64 Drug overdose deaths
Preventable hospitalizations ages 18–64 Home health patients with improved mobility
Diabetic adults without an annual hemoglobin A1c test Central line-associated blood stream infection (CLABSI)
Best Change
Data State U.S. state State Data State U.S. over
Dimension and indicator year rate average rate rank year rate average timeb
Children with a medical home 2020–21 47% 46% 55% 35 2018–19 48% 48% No Change
07/2018– 07/2016–
Hospital 30-day mortality 12% 12% 11% 5 13% 14% Improved
12/2021 06/2019
Best Change
Data State U.S. state State Data State U.S. over
Dimension and indicator year rate average rate rank year rate average timeb
Employer-sponsored insurance
2021 $5,562 $6,060 $4,255 15 2019 $5,174 $5,354 No Change
spending per enrollee
Medicare spending per beneficiary 2021 $10,361 $10,478 $6,915 30 2019 $10,148 $10,180 No Change
Primary care spending as a share of total health care spending
Best Change
Data State U.S. state State Data State U.S. over
Dimension and indicator year rate average rate rank year rate average timeb
Adults age 18 and older who smoke 2021 15% 14% 7% 26 2019 17% 15% Improved
Adults who are obese 2021 34% 34% 25% 23 2019 34% 32% No Change
Children who are overweight or obese 2020–21 30% 34% 24% 15 2018–19 28% 31% Worsened
Adults who have lost six or more teeth 2020 8% 9% 5% 23 2018 11% 9% Improved
Adults ages 19–64 uninsured 2021 14% -10 16 2019 15% -11 Improved
Children ages 0–18 uninsured 2021 6% -4 21 2019 6% -4 No Change
Adults ages 18–64 who report fair or poor health 2020–21 25% -19 36 2018–19 31% -23 Improved
Adults age 18 and older who smoke 2020–21 27% -17 33 2018–19 30% -19 Improved
Adults ages 18–64 who are obese (BMI >= 30) 2020–21 40% -9 36 2018–19 38% -7 Worsened
White peopleg 84 —
Performance Score based on methodology used in: Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in U.S. Health Care: A Scorecard of State Performance ,
Commonwealth Fund, Nov. 2021, available at: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/scorecard/2021/nov/achieving-racial-ethnic-equity-us-health-
care-state-performance
Table 4. State Racial and Ethnic Health Equity Performance Measure Dataf
Health Outcomes
Adults age 18 and older who smoke 2020–21 14% — 4% 19% 16% 15%
Adults ages 18–64 who are obese (BMI >= 30) 2020–21 34% 60% 8% 42% 33% 33%
Adults age 18 and older without a usual source of care 2020–21 17% 32% 23% 12% 22% 11%
Adults age 18 and older who did not receive a flu shot in
2020–21 55% 50% 46% 58% 61% 48%
the last year
Adults age 18 and older without a dental visit in past year 2018/20 35% 44% 29% 41% 34% 29%
Table 5. Select Reproductive Care and Women’s Health Measures by Race and Ethnicity
Infant mortality, deaths per 1,000 live births 2019-20 5.4 — 2.9 11 6 4.4
All-cause mortality rate per 100,000 women ages 15–44 2020-21 124 — 32 194 87 112
Notes
(a) The 2023 Scorecard rankings generally reflect 2021 data. The 2023 Scorecard added or revised several performance measures, including the addition
of 12 measures specifically related to reproductive care and women’s health and the removal of most measures around state COVID-19 response, since the
June 2022 Scorecard report; rankings are not comparable between reports.
(b) Trend data available for 50 of 58 total Scorecard indicators. Improved/worsened denotes a change of at least one-half (0.5) standard deviation larger
than the indicator’s distribution among all states over the two time points. No change denotes no change in rate or a change of less than one-half standard
deviation.
(c) Rates are for state's low-income population, generally those whose household income is less than 200% of the federal poverty level (FPL).
(d) Income disparity is the difference between the state's low-income and higher-income (generally 400%+ FPL) populations.
(e) Improvement indicates that the low-income rate improved and the disparity between low- and higher-income populations narrowed; worsening indicates
that the low-income rate worsened and the disparity between low- and higher-income populations widened.
(f) Performance data not available for all groups in every state.
(g) State not ranked on health system perfomance for white people in this report; included for comparative purposes.
“—” means data not available.
Most data reported here can also be found in the Commonwealth Fund's online Health System Data Center at
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/datacenter