Table 3. Prescription Medicines - Percent of persons with a Rx expense, mean expense per person with an expense, and percent of total paid out of pocket, United States, 2003 (29 statesa are shown separately)

  Unweighted sample size
State All persons Persons with an expense Population (1,000s)b Percent with an expenseb   Mean per person with an expenseb   Percent of total paid out of pocketb  
 
United States 32,681 19,847 290,604 64.4 950 44.9
 
California 5,190 2,545 35,613 56.2 806 38.5
Texas 3,763 2,096 21,977 61.1 771 50.9
New York 1,846 1,077 19,106 61.5 1,102 36.2
Florida 1,670 975 16,961 62.3 1,224 48.0
Illinois 1,240 716 12,779 60.0 982 54.7
Pennsylvania 938 612 12,279 67.6 952 43.8
Ohio 1,035 739 11,399 69.3 1,115 35.1
Michigan 1,122 758 10,009 69.4 972 35.8
New Jersey 815 488 8,689 62.6 892 40.4
Georgia 931 595 8,597 66.0 1,039 44.0
North Carolina 1,075 724 8,343 67.4 936 47.6
Virginia 569 383 7,338 68.8 883 39.8
Massachusetts 389 268 6,437 67.1 880 36.9
Washington 723 458 6,211 65.1 657 43.6
Indiana 375 260 6,179 69.8 1,198 41.6
Tennessee 585 385 5,934 68.9 928 50.1
Arizona 908 499 5,734 56.6 831 42.5
Missouri 657 438 5,692 68.0 976 55.0
Maryland 622 391 5,632 66.4 960 44.9
Wisconsin 634 409 5,549 64.5 919 46.5
Minnesota 525 321 5,128 61.4 769 33.5
Alabama 462 312 4,510 68.5 1,124 47.3
Louisiana 473 303 4,510 68.8 1,142 53.6
Colorado 340 192 4,469 57.4 800 41.1
Kentucky 614 448 4,158 73.2 1,320 50.4
South Carolina 485 332 4,088 71.5 1,045 50.0
Oregon 478 309 3,592 64.6 737 43.4
Connecticut 515 342 3,472 70.4 1,053 41.5
Oklahoma 380 264 3,453 67.7 1,228 54.9




Standard errors for Prescription Medicines - Percent of persons with a Rx expense, mean expense per person with an expense, and percent of total paid out of pocket, United States, 2003 (29 statesa are shown separately)

  Unweighted sample size
State All persons Persons with an expense Population (1,000s)b Percent with an expenseb   Mean per person with an expenseb   Percent of total paid out of pocketb  
 
United States 32,681 19,847 290,604 64.4 950 44.9
 
California 5,190 2,545 35,613 56.2 806 38.5
Texas 3,763 2,096 21,977 61.1 771 50.9
New York 1,846 1,077 19,106 61.5 1,102 36.2
Florida 1,670 975 16,961 62.3 1,224 48.0
Illinois 1,240 716 12,779 60.0 982 54.7
Pennsylvania 938 612 12,279 67.6 952 43.8
Ohio 1,035 739 11,399 69.3 1,115 35.1
Michigan 1,122 758 10,009 69.4 972 35.8
New Jersey 815 488 8,689 62.6 892 40.4
Georgia 931 595 8,597 66.0 1,039 44.0
North Carolina 1,075 724 8,343 67.4 936 47.6
Virginia 569 383 7,338 68.8 883 39.8
Massachusetts 389 268 6,437 67.1 880 36.9
Washington 723 458 6,211 65.1 657 43.6
Indiana 375 260 6,179 69.8 1,198 41.6
Tennessee 585 385 5,934 68.9 928 50.1
Arizona 908 499 5,734 56.6 831 42.5
Missouri 657 438 5,692 68.0 976 55.0
Maryland 622 391 5,632 66.4 960 44.9
Wisconsin 634 409 5,549 64.5 919 46.5
Minnesota 525 321 5,128 61.4 769 33.5
Alabama 462 312 4,510 68.5 1,124 47.3
Louisiana 473 303 4,510 68.8 1,142 53.6
Colorado 340 192 4,469 57.4 800 41.1
Kentucky 614 448 4,158 73.2 1,320 50.4
South Carolina 485 332 4,088 71.5 1,045 50.0
Oregon 478 309 3,592 64.6 737 43.4
Connecticut 515 342 3,472 70.4 1,053 41.5
Oklahoma 380 264 3,453 67.7 1,228 54.9

aEstimates are provided for 29 states and are listed in orderof state population size. Reliable estimates can not be produced for the other states due to insufficient sample in those states.

b"Population" and "Percent with an expense" columns are based on "All persons". "Mean per person with an expense" and "Percent of total paid out of pocket" columns are based on "Persons with an expense".

Source: Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component, 2003