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MEPS Topics: Outpatient Visits/Use/Events and Expenditures
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Outpatient Visits/Use/Events and Expenditures
Description: In MEPS, hospital care information are collected for each type of hospital setting (emergency room, inpatient, and outpatient department). An outpatient department visit/use/event is any visit made during the person's reference period to a hospital outpatient department, such as a unit of a hospital, or a facility connected with a hospital, providing health and medical services to individuals who receive services from the hospital but do not require hospitalization overnight. Examples of outpatient clinics include well-baby clinics/pediatric OPD; obesity clinics; eye, ear, nose, and throat clinics; family planning clinics; cardiology clinics; internal medicine departments; alcohol and drug abuse clinics; physical therapy clinics; and radiation therapy clinics. Hospital outpatient departments may also provide general primary care. Outpatient expenditures in MEPS are defined as the sum of payments for care received for each emergency room visit, including out-of-pocket payments and payments made by private insurance, Medicaid, Medicare and other sources. Outpatient expenditures data may be broken out by facility and separately billing doctor expenditures. Outpatient Department Visits Files are available as part of the event-level files. Information summarized to the person-level is available on the full-year consolidated files under the Household Full Year Files.
Publications: Publications are listed in reverse chronological order (most recent first).
Premiums in the Individual Health Insurance Market for Policyholders under Age 65: 2002 and 2005 
Statistical Brief #202 
Variation in Ambulatory Health Care Visits and Visits for General Checkup by Demographic Characteristics and Insurance Status, U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population Ages 18-64, 2005 
Statistical Brief #201 
Demographics and Health Care Access and Utilization of Limited-English-Proficient and English-Proficient Hispanics 
Research Findings #28 
The Top Five Therapeutic Classes of Outpatient Prescription Drugs Ranked by Total Expense for the Medicare Population Age 65 and Older in the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2005 
Statistical Brief #199 
The Top Five Therapeutic Classes of Outpatient Prescription Drugs Ranked by Total Expense for Adults Age 18 and Older in the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2005 
Statistical Brief #198 
Average Annual Health Care Use and Expenses for Shingles among the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2003-2005 
Statistical Brief #194 
National Health Care Expenses in the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2005 
Statistical Brief #193 
Estimates of Health Care Expenditures for the 10 Largest States, 2005 
Statistical Brief #192 
A Methodological Comparison of Ambulatory Health Care Data Collected in Two National Surveys 
Working Paper #7001 
The Top Five Outpatient Prescription Drugs Ranked by Total Expense for Medicare Beneficiaries, by Insurance Status, 2004 
Statistical Brief #186 
The Top Five Outpatient Prescription Drugs Ranked by Total Expense for Children, Adults, and the Elderly, 2004 
Statistical Brief #180 
Trends in Outpatient Prescription Drug Utilization and Expenditures: 1997 and 2004 
Statistical Brief #168 
The Top Five Therapeutic Classes of Outpatient Prescription Drugs Ranked by Total Expense for Adults Age 18 and Older in the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2004 
Statistical Brief #154 
The Top Five Therapeutic Classes of Outpatient Prescription Drugs Ranked by Total Expense for the Medicare Population Age 65 and Older in the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2004 
Statistical Brief #153 
Estimates of Health Care Expenditures for the 10 Largest States, 2004 
Statistical Brief #151 
National Health Care Expenses in the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2004 
Statistical Brief #149 
New Estimates of the Demand for Physical and Mental Health Treatment 
Working Paper #6008 
Trends in Brand Name and Generic Prescribed Medicine Utilization and Expenditures, 1999 and 2003 
Statistical Brief #144 
Outpatient Prescription Drug Expenses in the U.S. Community Population, 2003 
Chartbook #16 
Outpatient Prescribed Medicine Expenses by Source of Payment and Insurance Status for the Medicare and Non-Medicare Populations, 2003 
Statistical Brief #125 
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