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, 2016
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 21.59    21.62    22.53    21.66    21.04    23.79    20.24**
Census division:
New England 19.42    20.43    18.31    18.66    19.59    16.65    --   
Middle Atlantic 16.18    18.71    16.34    14.95    15.57    --    17.11**
East North Central 21.07    20.62    22.45    22.07    19.44    --    --   
West North Central 23.81    21.93    25.07    25.51    24.62    --    --   
South Atlantic 23.39    23.77    22.64    25.03    22.64    25.66    22.28**
East South Central 28.15    27.32    29.57    29.90    28.68    --    --   
West South Central 26.27    25.75    26.79    27.35    26.66    26.64    --   
Mountain 24.16    20.74    26.26    26.82    27.55    --    --   
Pacific 15.79    15.21    16.71    15.11    16.55    18.62    14.58**

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends. 2016 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, 2016
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 0.21    0.49    0.44    0.44    0.48    0.42    0.37**
Census division:
New England 0.24    0.01    0.92    0.46    0.73    1.43    --   
Middle Atlantic 0.40    0.64    1.23    0.68    0.83    --    0.03**
East North Central 0.45    0.36    1.09    0.99    1.57    --    --   
West North Central 0.51    0.42    0.97    1.87    1.45    --    --   
South Atlantic 0.34    0.54    0.91    1.37    0.88    0.87    0.57**
East South Central 0.82    2.46    1.30    1.21    0.78    --    --   
West South Central 0.38    0.58    0.48    0.77    1.50    0.36    --   
Mountain 0.74    1.31    0.91    1.39    1.44    --    --   
Pacific 0.50    1.35    0.78    0.76    0.87    1.93    0.19**

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends. 2016 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.