Table 1.

Total Expenditures by Type of Service for Each Care Category^*

	Total	Inpatient		Office-Based		PrescribedMedicines		HospitalOutpatient		Dental		EmergencyRoom		HomeHealth		OtherMedical†
	U.S.$Billions	U.S.$Billions	%	U.S.$Billions	%	U.S.$Billions	%	U.S.$Billions	%	U.S.$Billions	%	U.S.$Billions	%	U.S.$Billions	%	U.S.$Billions	%
Overall	1,126	353	31.3	264	23.5	233	20.7	96	8.5	82	7.3	38	3.4	38	3.4	23	2.0
Chronic conditions	530	158	29.9	95	18.0	184	34.8	35	6.5			9	1.7	28	5.3	20	3.8
Acute illness	287	128	44.4	61	21.4	44	15.5	30	10.5			18	6.2	3	1.1	3	0.9
Trauma/injury or poisoning	88	40	45.7	23	26.3	2	2.2	9	10.4			11	12.0	3	3.5
Dental	82									82	100.0
Routine preventative health care	63			57	90.0			6	10.0
Pregnancy/birth	39	27	67.6	10	25.0	0.4	1.1	2	4.0			1	2.1	0.1	0.3‡
Other	36			17	48.7	1	4.1	14	38.0					3	9.3

^*Total may not add to exactly 100.0 due to rounding.

^†Includes glasses/contact lenses, ambulance services, orthopedic items, hearing devices, prostheses, bathroom aids, medical equipment, disposable supplies, alterations/modifications (to homes), and other miscellaneous items.

^‡Estimate has high sampling error (Relative Standard Error>30%).

Source: Derived from the authors' analysis of 2007 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data, AHRQ.