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. 2012 Dec 28;2(4):mmrr.002.04.a09. doi: 10.5600/mmrr.002.04.a09

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.
1

In billions of 2007 U.S. dollars.

SOURCES: Calculations based on the MEPS (AHRQ, 2009), NHEA (CMS, 2012a), and other data sources.