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Expenses for Office-Based Physician Visits by Specialty, 2004 |
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This Statistical Brief presents data from the Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-HC) on expenses by provider specialty type for office-based physician visits in 2004 among persons in the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population. Data are shown for the eight most common types of office-based physician specialties, including primary care (defined in this brief as general practice, family practice, and internal medicine); pediatrics; obstetrics/gynecology; ophthalmology; orthopedics; psychiatry; cardiology; and dermatology; as well as a ninth catchall category that includes all other physician specialty types. Descriptive data on aggregate expenses, expenses per visit, and out-of-pocket payments for these physician specialty categories are presented. |
Author(s): |
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Steven R. Machlin, MS and Kelly Carper, MEd |
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Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
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