Table III.F.5 Average copayment (in dollars) for an office visit to a physician per employee enrolled in a health insurance plan that had a physician copayment through State and local government jobs by government type and size and census division: United States, 2015
Division All State and local governments State governments Local governments
Less than 250 employees 250-999 employees 1,000-4,999 employees 5,000-9,999 employees 10,000 or more employees
United States 21.52    21.60    22.49    21.33    21.92    22.92    19.75**
Census division:
New England 18.09    17.58    17.27    18.80    19.15    16.57    --   
Middle Atlantic 16.42    17.73    16.12    14.95    17.28    15.80    15.45   
East North Central 20.92    21.07    20.17    21.00    23.97    --    --   
West North Central 21.57    19.09    23.93    23.44    21.72    --    --   
South Atlantic 23.35    25.65    23.64    24.30    23.72    23.98    20.46   
East South Central 28.60    26.26    28.53    29.56    31.95    --    --   
West South Central 26.53    26.41    26.94    25.33    27.43    25.95    27.04   
Mountain 24.95    22.07    30.07    26.27    25.67    27.20    23.04   
Pacific 17.35    16.27    18.66    16.73    17.18    18.38    18.57**

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends. 2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component.

Note: Definitions and descriptions of the methods used for this survey can be found in the Technical Appendix.

** Positive standard error is the result of one or more non-certainty unit(s) in a size category that has historically contained only certainty units.

-- Data suppressed due to high standard errors or few reported values in cell.

 

Table III.F.5 Standard errors for average copayment (in dollars) for an office visit to a physician per employee enrolled in a health insurance plan that had a physician copayment through State and local government jobs by government type and size and census division: United States, 2015
Division All State and local governments State governments Local governments
Less than 250 employees 250-999 employees 1,000-4,999 employees 5,000-9,999 employees 10,000 or more employees
United States 0.12    0.00    0.43    0.36    0.45    0.35    0.02**
Census division:
New England 0.20    0.00    0.49    0.61    0.43    0.68    --   
Middle Atlantic 0.35    0.00    1.44    0.69    1.35    0.43    0.00   
East North Central 0.47    0.00    0.94    1.17    1.51    --    --   
West North Central 0.51    0.00    1.10    1.09    1.95    --    --   
South Atlantic 0.22    0.00    1.03    1.18    0.94    0.73    0.00   
East South Central 0.51    0.00    1.09    0.81    1.74    --    --   
West South Central 0.21    0.00    0.53    0.58    0.82    0.21    0.00   
Mountain 0.42    0.00    1.41    1.06    1.43    0.23    0.00   
Pacific 0.21    0.00    0.94    0.57    0.55    1.26    0.07**

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends. 2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component.

Note: Definitions and descriptions of the methods used for this survey can be found in the Technical Appendix.

** Positive standard error is the result of one or more non-certainty unit(s) in a size category that has historically contained only certainty units.

-- Data suppressed due to high standard errors or few reported values in cell.

Standard errors of zero indicate that all governments in the category are in the survey.