Table 9. Medicare Beneficiaries: Average Number of Services per Reimbursed User and Average Number of Reimbursed Services per Beneficiary for Persons Aged 66 Years and Over, by State, 1976.

Area of Residence	Average Number of Services per Reimbursed User	Average Number of Reimbursed Services per Beneficiary
	(a)	(b)
United States	24.1	12.0
Northeast	23.8	12.4
New England	23.3	12.0
Maine	26.8	12.3
New Hampshire	26.7	13.0
Vermont	24.0	13.1
Massachusetts	23.4	11.9
Rhode Island	23.6	15.2
Connecticut	20.5	10.5
Mid Atlantic	24.0	12.5
New York	25.1	13.4
New Jersey	23.3	12.9
Pennsylvania	22.5	10.9
North Central	23.2	10.5
East North Central	22.8	10.3
Ohio	26.5	12.0
Indiana	22.9	10.5
Illinois	23.1	9.6
Michigan	n.a.	n.a.
Wisconsin	28.9	13.4
West North Central	24.0	10.9
Minnesota	23.1	10.9
Iowa	21.5	9.8
Missouri	27.5	12.2
North Dakota	25.5	14.0
South Dakota	22.8	8.7
Nebraska	25.9	10.3
Kansas	20.3	9.6
South	25.1	12.0
South Atlantic	23.6	11.5
Delaware	23.4	12.1
Maryland	20.3	8.5
District of Columbia	24.4	12.0
Virginia	23.1	10.1
West Virginia	22.9	8.7
North Carolina	22.6	10.4
South Carolina	22.6	10.0
Georgia	24.5	11.6
Florida	24.7	14.0
East South Central	25.4	10.6
Kentucky	22.5	7.9
Tennessee	24.9	10.6
Alabama	22.9	9.9
Mississippi	33.1	15.6
West South Central	27.2	13.8
Arkansas	31.4	15.7
Louisiana	24.0	10.7
Oklahoma	24.8	11.9
Texas	27.7	14.8
West	24.2	13.8
Mountain	23.3	11.7
Montana	17.1	7.5
Idaho	25.8	12.0
Wyoming	26.4	10.1
Colorado	22.9	12.2
New Mexico	26.8	13.7
Arizona	26.4	14.3
Utah	n.a.	n.a.
Nevada	20.5	11.0
Pacific	24.4	14.5
Washington	22.7	12.6
Oregon	23.4	11.9
California	24.8	15.2
Alaska	22.9	14.0
Hawaii	21.1	12.2

n.a. Not available. Counts of services were unreliable for Michigan and Utah.