Table 10. Personal health care expenditures, by type of expenditure and selected source of funds: Calendar years 1985 and 1980.
| Source of payment | Total | Hospital care | Physicians' services | Dentists' services | Other professional services | Drugs and sundries | Eyeglasses and appliances | Nursing home care | Other |
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| Amount in billions | |||||||||
| 1985 | |||||||||
| Personal health care expenditures | $371.4 | $166.7 | $82.8 | $27.1 | $12.6 | $28.5 | $7.5 | $35.2 | $11.0 |
| Direct patient payments | 105.6 | 15.6 | 21.8 | 17.2 | 6.0 | 21.7 | 5.2 | 18.1 | — |
| Third-party payments | 265.8 | 151.2 | 61.0 | 9.8 | 6.6 | 6.7 | 2.4 | 17.1 | 11.0 |
| Private health insurance | 113.5 | 59.3 | 36.8 | 9.3 | 2.8 | 4.0 | 0.9 | 0.3 | — |
| Philanthropy and industrial inplant | 4.9 | 2.1 | 0.0 | — | 0.1 | — | — | 0.3 | 2.3 |
| Government | 147.5 | 89.8 | 24.1 | 0.6 | 3.6 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 16.5 | 8.6 |
| Federal | 112.6 | 71.6 | 19.7 | 0.3 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 9.4 | 6.0 |
| Medicare | 70.5 | 48.5 | 17.1 | — | 2.0 | — | 1.2 | 0.6 | 1.1 |
| Medicaid | 21.9 | 8.1 | 1.9 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.4 | — | 8.1 | 1.5 |
| Other | 20.2 | 15.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 3.4 |
| State and local | 34.8 | 18.2 | 4.4 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 7.1 | 2.6 |
| Medicaid | 17.9 | 6.8 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 1.0 | — | 6.6 | 1.2 |
| Other | 17.0 | 11.4 | 2.9 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.4 |
| 1980 | |||||||||
| Personal health care expenditures | 219.7 | 101.6 | 46.8 | 15.4 | 5.7 | 18.8 | 5.1 | 20.4 | 5.9 |
| Direct patient payments | 63.0 | 7.9 | 14.2 | 10.1 | 2.8 | 15.0 | 4.1 | 8.9 | — |
| Third-party payments | 156.7 | 93.7 | 32.6 | 5.3 | 2.9 | 3.8 | 0.9 | 11.5 | 5.9 |
| Private health insurance | 67.5 | 38.7 | 20.0 | 4.7 | 1.4 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | — |
| Philanthropy and industrial inplant | 2.7 | 1.1 | 0.0 | — | 0.1 | — | — | 0.1 | 1.4 |
| Government | 86.5 | 53.9 | 12.6 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 11.2 | 4.5 |
| Federal | 62.5 | 41.1 | 9.6 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 6.0 | 3.1 |
| Medicare | 35.7 | 25.9 | 7.9 | — | 0.7 | — | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Medicaid | 13.6 | 5.2 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.8 | — | 5.3 | 0.5 |
| Other | 13.1 | 10.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 2.1 |
| State and local | 24.0 | 12.8 | 3.0 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 5.2 | 1.4 |
| Medicaid | 11.6 | 4.4 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.6 | — | 4.5 | 0.4 |
| Other | 12.4 | 8.4 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 1.0 |
NOTES: 0.0 denotes less than $50 million. Medicaid expenditures include Part B premium payments to Medicare by States under “buy-in” agreements to cover premiums for eligible Medicaid recipients.
SOURCE: Health Care Financing Administration, Office of the Actuary: Data from the Division of National Cost Estimates.