The Pennsylvania Health Care Containment Council (PHC4) Research Brief indicates that the “number of super-utilizers has dropped between 2012 and 2016.” The graphic above is from the Research Brief which is downloadable here.

“‘Super-utilizer’ has been used to describe patients who have repeated inpatient hospital stays or who make frequent trips to hospital emergency rooms – often across different hospitals or health systems. The result is a high health care costs that might have been prevented through early intervention and collaborative care.”

“A nurse conducts a foot exam on a diabetic patient in Oak Hill, W.Va.” - SOURCE: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation article: “Treating Super Utilizers in Rural Pennsylvania.”