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, 2008 (25 statesa are shown separately)
State Unweighted sample
size		 Population
(1,000s)b		 Percent with
an expenseb		 Mean per
person with an
expenseb		 Percent of
total paid out
of pocketb
All
persons		 Persons
with an
expense
United States 31,262      17,966      304,376      62.3      1,304.9      26.1     
 
California 5,071      2,431      30,435      50.9      1,103.9      24.3     
Texas 3,260      1,727      20,617      57.2      1,244.4      27.1     
New York 1,806      1,000      16,021      57.8      1,195.6      23.9     
Florida 1,825      1,053      14,708      59.9      1,449.7      30.8     
Illinois 1,131      626      10,704      56.5      1,445.0      25.4     
Pennsylvania 956      580      10,194      64.8      1,261.9      24.6     
Ohio 968      645      9,517      67.2      1,228.3      25.8     
Michigan 969      641      8,297      67.6      1,255.3      21.1     
Georgia 979      548      8,036      59.4      1,245.5      25.0     
North Carolina 952      586      7,598      63.8      1,187.1      25.0     
New Jersey 934      580      7,180      67.9      1,356.7      21.4     
Virginia 837      526      6,458      65.9      1,265.2      29.0     
Arizona 628      312      5,524      52.1      906.9      29.6     
Indiana 597      392      5,355      65.0      1,265.9      21.5     
Washington 814      465      5,183      60.1      1,250.7      28.5     
Massachusetts 463      305      5,173      69.4      1,426.6      17.2     
Tennessee 505      314      5,091      65.2      1,364.7      30.6     
Maryland 516      274      4,926      54.6      1,181.5      26.0     
Missouri 494      327      4,911      64.9      1,221.7      21.9     
Wisconsin 610      351      4,506      58.3      1,111.7      24.0     
Minnesota 498      300      4,239      62.5      1,165.5      25.5     
Alabama 500      311      4,008      63.2      1,369.0      22.7     
Colorado 402      226      3,966      57.9      955.5      36.7     
South Carolina 317      204      3,843      61.4      1,622.6      22.9     
Louisiana 269      183      3,651      66.9      1,021.6      27.2     




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, 2008 (25 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 0.5           29.4           0.6           205          
 
California 1.0           74.6           1.5           32          
Texas 1.4           176.0           5.1           16          
New York 1.2           113.0           3.1           11          
Florida 1.9           85.1           1.8           10          
Illinois 3.2           238.4           1.3           8          
Pennsylvania 0.6           144.4           1.1           6          
Ohio 1.6           47.8           2.0           6          
Michigan 2.1           155.6           2.0           5          
Georgia 2.3           226.0           3.8           7          
North Carolina 1.9           148.4           1.5           3          
New Jersey 2.0           150.1           1.4           6          
Virginia 1.4           153.1           2.9           5          
Arizona 1.4           89.3           3.9           4          
Indiana 4.0           106.1           0.8           3          
Washington 1.1           140.8           4.8           5          
Massachusetts 2.1           188.6           3.1           2          
Tennessee 2.2           264.1           2.5           2          
Maryland 6.6           53.6           4.6           3          
Missouri 3.6           79.6           2.4           3          
Wisconsin 2.3           75.1           1.8           4          
Minnesota 2.3           204.6           4.5           4          
Alabama 4.6           196.1           1.1           2          
Colorado 3.7           150.2           6.1           3          
South Carolina 6.0           467.3           1.9           2          
Louisiana 4.1           18.4           2.4           2          

* Relative standard error equal to or greater than 30%.

a Estimates are provided for 25 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 distribution of total expenses by source payments" columns are based on "Persons with an expense".

c The 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, 2008.