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, 2007 (34 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 29,370 17,308 301,309 61.7 1,251 27.7
 
California 4,414 2,117 36,662 50.6 1,170 22.9
Texas 3,252 1,743 23,866 59.4 1,210 27.5
New York 1,688 961 19,217 59.2 1,401 25.5
Florida 1,526 887 18,164 62.5 1,112 32.6
Illinois 1,110 687 12,800 60.7 1,438 25.7
Pennsylvania 931 602 12,573 64.8 1,357 26.5
Ohio 974 652 11,420 67.6 1,347 26.7
Michigan 916 584 10,029 63.5 1,381 28.0
Georgia 835 502 9,511 59.3 1,214 33.4
North Carolina 940 580 9,197 63.3 1,275 26.5
New Jersey 763 463 8,661 63.3 1,359 27.3
Virginia 711 463 7,703 66.0 1,137 24.8
Washington 793 483 6,454 62.5 1,079 29.6
Arizona 820 444 6,405 55.1 1,074 25.3
Massachusetts 374 243 6,379 65.5 1,149 26.9
Indiana 461 289 6,317 62.9 1,513 25.5
Tennessee 522 342 6,200 67.3 1,337 28.6
Missouri 490 346 5,878 71.1 1,421 30.8
Maryland 438 266 5,619 61.7 915 25.3
Wisconsin 651 414 5,558 63.1 1,011 31.6
Minnesota 516 325 5,203 63.7 1,126 28.8
Colorado 374 196 4,854 55.9 1,157 28.6
Alabama 397 252 4,614 62.1 1,497 28.9
South Carolina 337 203 4,397 62.0 1,460 29.8
Kentucky 617 426 4,263 70.9 1,549 28.3
Louisiana 344 212 4,227 66.1 1,210 29.9
Oregon 441 267 3,741 59.8 1,195 27.4
Connecticut 340 216 3,559 64.0 1,651 24.2
Oklahoma 340 208 3,541 64.8 1,405 32.8
Iowa 223 159 3,011 74.1 873 32.9
Mississippi 291 208 2,927 69.7 1,190 33.2
Arkansas 327 202 2,851 62.3 1,264 28.9
Kansas 265 159 2,737 68.2 1,237 36.6
Nevada 163 92 2,559 58.1 1,173 28.8




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, 2007 (34 statesa are shown separately)


State
Standard error for

Degrees of freedom associated with estimating standard errorsc
Percent with an expenseb   Mean per person with an expenseb   Percent of total paid out of pocketb  

 
United States 0.4 27 0.5 368
 
California 1.0 99 1.7 98
Texas 1.2 133 2.1 60
New York 2.0 112 2.3 54
Florida 2.0 75 2.2 45
Illinois 1.6 236 3.4 37
Pennsylvania 1.7 96 1.6 30
Ohio 1.7 62 1.2 23
Michigan 1.8 175 2.1 23
Georgia 2.3 109 3.4 26
North Carolina 2.6 187 3.0 12
New Jersey 2.5 156 2.0 33
Virginia 2.5 118 2.1 22
Washington 3.2 100 2.7 18
Arizona 2.3 114 2.5 23
Massachusetts 2.4 105 3.1 13
Indiana 4.0 148 3.4 11
Tennessee 2.7 108 4.5 6
Missouri 1.3 182 4.4 16
Maryland 2.6 155 2.6 18
Wisconsin 2.4 71 2.2 14
Minnesota 2.2 69 1.6 14
Colorado 3.3 167 5.2 11
Alabama 2.5 173 3.4 5
South Carolina 4.1 158 2.5 8
Kentucky 2.1 162 3.0 10
Louisiana 3.2 107 3.0 6
Oregon 4.0 126 2.5 10
Connecticut 2.3 186 4.7 6
Oklahoma 3.0 208 4.2 4
Iowa 1.2 41 0.6 4
Mississippi 2.3 192 3.1 4
Arkansas 1.6 73 2.0 7
Kansas 5.2 177 8.1 6
Nevada 2.3 326 2.2 4

aEstimates are provided for 34 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".

cThe precision of an estimated standard error depends on the degrees of freedom available for estimating the standard error. In constructing a confidence interval for a state-level estimate, the corresponding degrees of freedom should be used in obtaining the critical value from the Student’s t-distribution.

Source: Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component, 2007