Table 2.
Probability of service use and expenditures among users by age group
| Service Type* | Utilization (%)
|
Expenditures among users ($)
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3–6 | 7–11 | 12–16 | 17–20 | 3–6 | 7–11 | 12–16 | 17–20 | |
| Inpatient care | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 5,032 | 6,475 | 6,805 | 6,919 |
| Long term care | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 17,852 | 28,958 | 33,605 | 43,397 |
| Psychotropic medications | 34 | 58 | 68 | 71 | 1,432 | 2,508 | 3,479 | 3,969 |
| Outpatient care | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 7,848 | 9,353 | 11,217 | 13,061 |
| Occupational/physical therapy | 16 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 4,309 | 3,166 | 3,201 | 3,612 |
| Speech therapy | 37 | 25 | 15 | 9 | 1,620 | 1,259 | 978 | 906 |
| Mental health/social skills/behavior modification | 22 | 24 | 21 | 18 | 2,838 | 2,516 | 2,695 | 3,078 |
| Diagnostic/assessment | 51 | 42 | 40 | 38 | 686 | 669 | 534 | 397 |
| Case management | 34 | 38 | 43 | 45 | 1,590 | 1,825 | 1,991 | 2,006 |
| Medication management | 10 | 21 | 28 | 31 | 265 | 335 | 346 | 313 |
| Personal care/home health aide | 17 | 23 | 24 | 22 | 11,975 | 13,482 | 13,164 | 14,310 |
| Day/partial treatment | 4 | 9 | 13 | 14 | 2,910 | 2,777 | 3,084 | 2,835 |
| Family therapy | 13 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 783 | 667 | 673 | 624 |
| Respite care | 4 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 3,070 | 3,228 | 3,525 | 4,250 |
| Total | NA | NA | NA | NA | 8,815 | 12,450 | 16,877 | 21,684 |
*
For each variable p value for the test of overall differences in sample means between age groups were < 0.001, except for the mental health/social skills/behavior modification service expenditures (p = 0.127)