title: Out-of-pocket health care expenditures, by insurance status, 2007-10.
abstract: Out-of-pocket health care spending in the United States totaled $306.2 billion in 2010 and represented 11.8 percent of total national health expenditures, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' National Health Expenditure Accounts. Spending by people with employer-sponsored health insurance and those covered by Medicare accounted for over 80 percent of total out-of-pocket spending. People without comprehensive medical coverage accounted for less than 8 percent of all out-of-pocket expenditures in 2010. Between 2007 and 2010 per person out-of-pocket spending grew most rapidly for people primarily covered by employer-sponsored insurance and declined for people primarily covered by Medicare and those without coverage.
authors.affiliation: Mary K. Catlin (mary.catlin@cms.hhs.gov) is an economist in the Office of the Actuary, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: Mary K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Catlin
authors.affiliation: John A. Poisal is deputy director of the National Health Statistics Group, CMS Office of the Actuary.
authors.forename: John A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Poisal
authors.affiliation: Cathy A. Cowan is an economist in the CMS Office of the Actuary.
authors.forename: Cathy A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Cowan
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000639:trends*; D019458:Insurance Coverage / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends*; D008484:Medicaid / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States
keywords: Health Spending; Medicare