11 States that have Highest Rates of Surgical Procedures in America

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1. Arkansas

All Surgical Discharges per 1,000 Medicare Enrollees 92.1

Arkansas is the first on our list 11 states that have highest rates of surgical procedures in America. According to America Health Ranking the state is the second unhealthiest in America, with number of health challenges including high rates of cancer and cardiovascular deaths, low immunization among children and adolescents, high prevalence of obesity, physical inactivity, diabetes…. It seems that one of the rare good things about Arkansas’s health profile is a low rate of alcohol and drug addicts.

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