Table 3.11 Admissions by primary substance of abuse, according to type of health insurance and actual/expected primary source of payment: TEDS 2003 Percent distribution
[Based on administrative data reported to TEDS by all reporting States and jurisdictions - Supplemental Data Set.1]
Type of health insurance and actual/expected primary source of payment	All admis- sions	Primary substance at admission
		Alcohol		Opiates		Cocaine		Mari- juana/ hashish	Stimulants		Tran- quil- izers	Seda- tives	Hallu- cino- gens	PCP	Inhal- ants	Other/ none speci- fied
		Alcohol only	With secondary drug	Heroin	Other opiates	Smoked cocaine	Other route		Metham- phetamine/ amphet- amine	Other stimu- lants
Total	1,840,275	426,076	341,200	272,782	50,946	180,810	68,608	284,361	135,716	1,227	7,980	4,121	2,187	4,086	1,167	59,008
Type of health insurance
None	62.6	65.6	62.4	60.0	50.4	68.1	66.2	58.2	77.6	60.8	45.0	64.8	62.8	63.0	55.0	41.6
Medicaid	14.8	7.6	13.6	22.6	16.8	14.7	12.4	18.2	10.8	19.4	19.5	11.3	13.2	10.4	21.2	29.7
Private insurance	7.4	10.3	7.1	4.4	10.2	4.1	6.8	9.0	3.6	8.1	9.0	7.7	7.2	10.3	7.9	6.5
HMO	3.9	4.9	3.9	5.1	6.9	2.2	3.8	3.4	0.5	2.7	5.3	4.1	4.6	3.3	1.7	1.4
Blue Cross/Blue Shield	1.5	2.1	1.5	0.7	2.2	0.7	1.4	1.9	1.0	0.8	1.9	2.2	1.7	1.1	1.4	1.0
Medicare	1.6	1.7	1.7	1.8	2.2	1.6	1.3	0.8	0.4	1.7	3.3	2.0	1.0	0.7	1.2	3.4
Other	8.3	7.7	9.8	5.3	11.3	8.7	8.2	8.5	6.1	6.6	16.0	7.7	9.6	11.2	11.6	16.3
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
No. of admissions	848,552	220,923	130,643	124,772	24,243	84,688	28,675	137,275	53,685	665	3,802	1,923	897	1,869	723	33,769
Actual/expected primary source of payment 2
Self-pay	26.4	39.3	23.5	18.2	26.4	20.7	28.3	18.7	22.7	32.2	23.6	23.3	20.4	26.1	21.8	23.8
Medicaid	15.7	7.9	14.5	19.4	15.3	19.3	14.0	23.8	14.1	19.8	17.0	17.3	15.9	12.7	28.3	21.3
Medicare	1.2	1.3	1.2	1.0	1.2	1.1	1.1	0.5	0.5	2.4	2.3	2.8	0.2	0.2	1.4	3.9
Other govt. payments	25.9	20.8	28.9	30.1	26.2	25.6	27.2	26.6	40.0	13.8	27.5	17.7	28.4	29.2	16.4	17.0
No charge	11.7	8.0	13.4	12.8	13.1	16.9	12.5	11.9	8.5	5.9	11.7	19.6	16.6	12.0	15.4	14.3
Blue Cross/Blue Shield	1.9	2.5	2.1	1.1	2.7	0.8	1.8	2.2	1.4	3.3	2.1	3.5	1.9	0.8	1.0	1.1
Other health insurance	6.1	6.9	6.3	4.7	8.4	4.7	6.4	7.9	3.5	7.3	6.9	6.8	5.2	1.9	5.5	3.3
Worker's compensation	*	0.1	*	*	0.1	*	*	*	*	- -	- -	- -	0.2	- -	- -	*
Other	11.2	13.4	10.2	12.7	6.6	10.8	8.7	8.4	9.4	15.3	8.9	9.0	11.2	17.2	10.3	15.4
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
No. of admissions	553,567	153,079	85,991	60,526	17,040	59,160	17,847	95,620	32,150	509	2,928	1,125	578	1,330	513	25,171
1 Supplemental Data Set items are not reported by all States. See Table 4.4 for details.
2 This information is collected at admission and may not correspond to the actual source of payment.
* Less than 0.05 percent.
- -  Quantity is zero.
SOURCE: Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS). Data received through 4.11.05.

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