Title: |
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Health Care Expenses for Injuries: Estimates from the 1997 MEPS |
Publication date (print version): |
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December 2003 |
Description: |
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This report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality uses data from the 1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Household Component to examine the health care costs of injury-related conditions. An estimated $57.9 billion was spent on injury-related conditions for the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population. Approximately 62 million people were reported to have had an injury-related condition. Seventy percent of the people with an injury-related condition (43 million people) had a medical expense related to that condition. This report gives estimates of injury-related expenses for inpatient hospital services and ambulatory medical care services by age, sex, race, health insurance, and poverty level. Injury-related expenses as a proportion of total medical expenses, and mean and median expenses are also discussed. The proportion of expenses for injury and noninjury medical care paid by various sources, including out-of-pocket, Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, and Workers¿ Compensation, are also compared. |
Author(s): |
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Nancy Krauss, M.S., Steven Machlin, M.S.,Gregory Adams, M.A. |
Agency: |
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Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
540 Gaither Road Rockville, MD 20850