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, 2010 (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 31,228         17,272         308,574         61.3         1,432.1         21.8        
 
California 5,041         2,221         30,800         47.7         1,334.0         16.5        
Texas 2,918         1,451         21,492         53.1         1,089.5         22.2        
New York 1,814         894         15,687         53.4         1,517.4         15.6        
Florida 1,845         1,027         14,962         58.1         1,537.0         25.1        
Illinois 1,189         668         10,617         60.1         1,180.8         24.0        
Pennsylvania 946         574         10,275         62.5         1,190.0         22.3        
Ohio 1,155         674         9,400         59.4         1,212.5         24.1        
Michigan 984         607         8,225         60.8         1,642.1         16.2        
Georgia 1,071         607         8,065         59.7         1,173.9         34.4        
North Carolina 804         447         7,574         60.9         1,602.4         21.5        
New Jersey 948         546         7,273         58.6         1,289.3         18.1        
Virginia 925         600         6,517         66.3         1,492.1         20.2        
Arizona 560         298         5,459         54.7         1,197.9         24.4        
Massachusetts 452         277         5,428         61.4         1,345.4         16.8        
Washington 873         507         5,337         59.7         1,140.1         27.9        
Indiana 633         400         5,304         64.6         1,142.7         23.5        
Tennessee 484         293         5,248         59.7         1,765.8         32.1        
Missouri 565         342         4,846         62.1         1,556.9         19.7        
Maryland 509         274         4,760         51.3         1,120.8         20.7        
Wisconsin 579         376         4,519         66.6         1,463.2         18.5        
Minnesota 528         308         4,146         60.2         1,336.2         18.8        
Colorado 369         206         4,062         66.8         820.9         26.6        
Alabama 417         262         3,946         60.0         1,340.0         29.1        
South Carolina 376         229         3,847         62.6         1,204.4  *      21.9        
Louisiana 369         235         3,758         64.3         1,487.8         23.7        




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, 2010 (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           36.7           0.5           205          
 
California 1.5           202.9           2.4           32          
Texas 1.7           88.7           1.2           16          
New York 1.3           191.4           1.9           11          
Florida 1.2           123.1           1.6           10          
Illinois 1.3           121.7           2.0           8          
Pennsylvania 1.1           168.2           3.4           6          
Ohio 1.7           99.5           1.6           6          
Michigan 1.8           267.3           1.5           5          
Georgia 1.7           137.8           5.3           7          
North Carolina 2.1           179.0           2.7           3          
New Jersey 3.9           136.9           2.5           6          
Virginia 2.3           304.4           2.6           5          
Arizona 2.1           142.8           1.9           4          
Massachusetts 0.7           141.2           3.0           2          
Washington 2.8           146.5           3.6           5          
Indiana 2.0           101.0           2.5           3          
Tennessee 3.0           294.2           7.9           2          
Missouri 1.1           218.2           3.6           3          
Maryland 4.6           64.1           3.9           3          
Wisconsin 2.9           113.0           1.4           4          
Minnesota 2.8           291.1           4.0           4          
Colorado 4.8           212.3           4.9           3          
Alabama 4.3           252.0           0.4           2          
South Carolina 1.8           409.6  *        2.5           2          
Louisiana 2.2           249.2           1.6           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, 2010.