Table 4. Office-based Medical Provider Services - Percent of persons with an office-based visit 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 19,911 301,309 71.0 1,235 15.0
 
California 4,414 2,602 36,662 62.8 1,209 15.9
Texas 3,252 1,926 23,866 64.9 1,094 19.0
New York 1,688 1,202 19,217 73.6 1,007 16.1
Florida 1,526 1,000 18,164 68.7 1,278 16.6
Illinois 1,110 813 12,800 72.7 1,121 17.1
Pennsylvania 931 682 12,573 71.5 1,160 12.0
Ohio 974 714 11,420 74.5 1,034 15.5
Michigan 916 684 10,029 74.5 1,234 12.6
Georgia 835 549 9,511 66.8 1,259 * 13.8 *
North Carolina 940 650 9,197 71.1 1,048 10.6
New Jersey 763 553 8,661 75.6 1,913 12.6
Virginia 711 533 7,703 77.1 1,093 18.6
Washington 793 571 6,454 74.5 1,515 19.1
Arizona 820 524 6,405 65.9 1,353 17.8
Massachusetts 374 294 6,379 79.6 1,327 13.4
Indiana 461 333 6,317 72.6 1,194 14.8
Tennessee 522 365 6,200 71.9 955 12.9
Missouri 490 379 5,878 75.8 1,441 9.2
Maryland 438 311 5,619 72.9 1,144 13.8
Wisconsin 651 504 5,558 75.9 1,933 9.4 *
Minnesota 516 402 5,203 78.4 1,519 13.1
Colorado 374 246 4,854 70.4 1,483 14.7
Alabama 397 268 4,614 67.0 1,135 14.3
South Carolina 337 202 4,397 62.2 1,004 18.7
Kentucky 617 456 4,263 75.8 1,421 * 12.8 *
Louisiana 344 200 4,227 63.2 711 21.2
Oregon 441 319 3,741 72.7 1,204 14.5
Connecticut 340 255 3,559 76.4 1,422 16.3
Oklahoma 340 219 3,541 67.5 1,104 13.8
Iowa 223 177 3,011 81.2 1,426 * 10.5 *
Mississippi 291 199 2,927 68.1 837 13.4
Arkansas 327 182 2,851 57.3 822 16.3
Kansas 265 185 2,737 75.8 1,370 12.7
Nevada 163 114 2,559 69.4 922 16.2



Standard errors for Office-based Provider Services - Percent of persons with an office-based visit 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 40 0.6 368
 
California 1.0 177 3.5 98
Texas 1.2 76 1.8 60
New York 1.4 57 1.6 54
Florida 1.9 95 2.1 45
Illinois 1.6 106 1.4 37
Pennsylvania 2.2 90 1.2 30
Ohio 1.5 104 2.1 23
Michigan 1.9 162 1.6 23
Georgia 2.7 474 * 5.9 * 26
North Carolina 2.4 158 1.7 12
New Jersey 2.6 366 3.5 33
Virginia 2.9 93 1.6 22
Washington 2.6 110 2.3 18
Arizona 2.6 153 3.2 23
Massachusetts 2.4 198 3.8 13
Indiana 1.9 134 2.3 11
Tennessee 2.6 102 1.7 6
Missouri 2.2 252 2.0 16
Maryland 1.9 121 2.2 18
Wisconsin 2.2 563 2.9 * 14
Minnesota 1.8 242 1.8 14
Colorado 3.8 212 2.2 11
Alabama 3.4 164 2.8 5
South Carolina 4.8 143 4.1 8
Kentucky 2.2 435 * 3.9 * 10
Louisiana 6.6 96 4.2 6
Oregon 2.4 171 2.4 10
Connecticut 2.1 211 4.3 6
Oklahoma 4.4 189 2.3 4
Iowa 4.3 692 * 5.9 * 4
Mississippi 6.2 107 3.2 4
Arkansas 2.2 81 4.2 7
Kansas 3.1 124 1.5 6
Nevada 7.2 38 0.8 4

* Relative standard error equal to or greater than 30%

aEstimates are provided for 34 states and are listed in order of 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