This issue brief examines health care spending for adults and children with diabetes relative to those without diabetes, both in terms of total per capita health care spending and out-of-pocket costs from 2009-2013. 

Key Findings: 

• ​ In 2013, $14,999 was spent per capita on health care for people with diabetes.
  
• Per capita health care spending for children with diabetes rose 7% from 2011 to 2012 and 9.6% from 2012 to 2013.
  
• Between 2011 and 2013, children with diabetes had the fastest per capita spending growth.
  
• In 2013, $2,511 was spent per child with diabetes on branded insulin, more than four times what was spent on branded insulin for middle-aged adults ($589) and pre-Medicare adults ($617).