Table 2.

Out-of-Pocket Spending among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries by Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, 2012

	ADRD			No ADRD
ALL	N	Wt. Mean	SE	N	Wt. Mean	SE	Sig
Total	462	3,284.6	376.0	7,160	1,895.0	47.3	***
Inpatient	462	111.4	35.6	7,160	42.9	6.4	*
Outpatient	462	161.2	65.6	7,160	120.9	12.5	***
Medical Provider	462	981.2	136.6	7,160	667.1	20.5	*
Prescription Drugs	462	847.5	61.8	7,160	597.9	14.0	***
Home Health	462	874.3	276.9	7,160	52.7	26.1	**
Dental	462	242.2	62.0	7,160	404.9	15.8	**
Other	462	66.9	21.5	7,160	8.8	1.7	**
Among those with Out-of-Pocket Spending > 0
Total	457	3,319.4	379.6	7,114	1,907.2	47.8	***
Inpatient	42	1,228.1	356.9	279	1,109.2	151.9	*
Outpatient	145	508.1	204.2	2,316	381.0	36.8
Medical Provider	410	1,101.5	151.2	6,421	744.9	22.4	*
Prescription Drugs	451	867.7	64.0	6,855	627.4	14.6	***
Home Health	26	14,523.7	3,492.5	80	5,060.4	2,431.8	***
Dental	152	726.3	183.3	3,516	798.4	28.0
Other	20	1,496.1	340.5	79	908.4	160.6	***

Note: Based on 7,622 Medicare beneficiaries age 65 and older, alive during the calendar and had positive total healthcare expenditures. Significant group differences average out-of-pocket spending by ADRD status were based on t-tests. Among those with out-of-pocket spending greater than zero, the total spending is not sum of individual domains.

ADRD: Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders; SE: Standard error; Sig: Significance; Wt: Weighted

^***p < .001;

^**.001 ≤ p < .01;

^*.01 ≤ p < .05