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, 2009 (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 34,920         20,058         306,661         62.5         1,344.5         21.7        
 
California 5,803         2,770         30,513         51.3         1,077.2         18.8        
Texas 3,469         1,889         21,161         59.0         1,209.7         20.5        
New York 1,982         1,089         15,666         57.4         1,245.1         17.7        
Florida 2,176         1,284         14,884         62.4         1,374.9         23.8        
Illinois 1,306         716         10,563         59.3         1,367.4         22.1        
Pennsylvania 992         613         10,302         66.7         1,178.6         21.4        
Ohio 1,150         713         9,596         62.4         1,248.3         20.3        
Michigan 1,075         704         8,081         67.0         1,277.7         19.0        
Georgia 1,216         667         7,928         59.0         1,071.9         26.4        
North Carolina 980         595         7,750         62.8         1,294.8         23.1        
New Jersey 1,063         636         7,418         64.5         1,484.6         16.6        
Virginia 996         641         6,601         68.2         1,664.9         21.3        
Arizona 649         343         5,420         55.4         1,115.0         25.7        
Washington 924         526         5,359         57.1         1,242.1         23.9        
Massachusetts 504         324         5,330         65.1         1,282.0         16.3        
Indiana 639         434         5,329         65.8         1,311.7         21.5        
Tennessee 547         342         5,197         67.4         1,453.8         21.5        
Missouri 597         388         4,906         65.7         1,264.2         19.8        
Maryland 565         289         4,624         56.5         1,291.5         22.1        
Wisconsin 611         370         4,558         61.6         1,334.2         20.7        
Minnesota 561         338         4,242         63.2         1,188.1         21.3        
Colorado 444         243         4,014         57.1         1,458.3         20.2        
Alabama 519         320         3,980         60.1         1,284.8         22.3        
South Carolina 382         249         3,895         67.4         1,599.6         18.4        
Louisiana 354         240         3,771         66.2         1,332.6         24.9        




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, 2009 (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           31.5           0.4           205          
 
California 1.1           68.4           1.2           32          
Texas 1.5           158.5           1.4           16          
New York 1.6           110.5           1.0           11          
Florida 1.3           69.6           3.2           10          
Illinois 2.6           214.4           3.3           8          
Pennsylvania 1.7           98.2           1.4           6          
Ohio 0.9           115.7           2.1           6          
Michigan 1.9           180.4           1.0           5          
Georgia 2.1           157.8           4.2           7          
North Carolina 1.8           201.7           3.0           3          
New Jersey 3.1           172.8           2.0           6          
Virginia 1.2           325.3           3.2           5          
Arizona 1.2           77.1           2.2           4          
Washington 2.8           160.6           3.8           5          
Massachusetts 1.3           192.0           4.4           2          
Indiana 3.0           107.3           1.6           3          
Tennessee 1.1           142.7           3.0           2          
Missouri 3.2           192.7           2.3           3          
Maryland 4.2           216.0           5.2           3          
Wisconsin 4.0           205.2           0.8           4          
Minnesota 1.7           242.8           2.8           4          
Colorado 5.6           132.0           3.6           3          
Alabama 1.3           25.9           4.6           2          
South Carolina 4.4           256.0           1.4           2          
Louisiana 3.6           201.3           2.2           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, 2009.