Exhibit 3. Selected Adjustments to Align National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA) and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Service Categories.
Amount Shifted1 | Adjustment | Initial NHEA Category | Adjusted NHEA Category |
---|---|---|---|
$7.0 | Hospital-Based Home Health | Hospital | Home Health |
$4.7 | Hospital-Based Pharmacy Sales | Hospital | Prescription Drugs |
$2.2 | Hospital-Based Personal Care | Hospital | Other Personal Care |
$8.1 | Outpatient Mental Health | Physician & Clinical Svcs. | Other Professional Svcs. |
$5.9 | Kidney Dialysis Providers | Physician & Clinical Svcs. | Other Professional Svcs. |
$10.0 | Other Providers | Physician & Clinical Svcs. | Other Professional Svcs. |
$6.0 | Prescription Drugs | Physician & Clinical Svcs. | Prescription Drugs |
$4.7 | Durable Medical Equipment | Physician & Clinical Svcs. | Other Medical Equipment |
$31.6 | Independently-Billed Laboratory | Physician & Clinical Svcs. | Other Professional Svcs. |
In billions of 2007 U.S. dollars.
SOURCES: Calculations based on the MEPS (AHRQ, 2009), NHEA (CMS, 2012a), and other data sources.