TABLE 2.

Median Medical Expenditures and Disability Durations by Diagnostic Category and Medical Condition

Diagnostic Category or Medical Condition*	Number of Cases		Disability Duration (Days)			Total Medical Expenditures ($) per Case			Out-of-Pocket Expenditures (%) of Total
	N	%†	25th %ile	50th %ile	75th %ile	25th %ile	50th %ile	75th %ile	50th %ile
Musculoskeletal	184,254	23%	28	54	93	2,096	7,199	20,956	11
Back problems	72,698	9%	26	51	96	1,334	5,062	20,362	12
Connective tissue disorders	40,892	5%	27	51	93	1,896	6,098	12,869	12
Osteoarthritis	20,507	3%	46	73	104	12,756	33,049	48,805	5
Non-traumatic joint disorders	16,322	2%	25	47	88	1,470	5,381	14,844	11
Traumatic joint dislocations	13,041	2%	28	48	82	4,594	8,084	14,601	11
Injury	131,598	17%	23	44	80	1,046	4,065	12,072	13
Sprains and strains	43,354	5%	21	41	82	563	2,129	9,017	15
Traumatic joint disorders	18,995	2%	27	44	73	3,960	6,985	11,444	11
Lower limb fractures	16,385	2%	38	62	97	1,642	4,624	16,276	13
Upper limb fracture	13,453	2%	36	57	87	1,963	5,719	16,445	13
Mental	99,483	13%	28	48	88	631	2,014	7,458	16
Mood disorders	55,774	7%	30	54	92	715	2,162	7,476	16
Anxiety disorders	25,955	3%	24	41	79	416	1,124	3,454	18
Digestive	79,707	10%	17	28	45	5,202	10,611	20,444	9
Abdominal hernia	22,315	3%	23	34	49	5,308	8,422	14,014	10
Biliary tract disease	18,338	2%	16	23	35	8,824	13,228	20,543	9
Respiratory	57,676	7%	12	19	32	531	2,028	8,686	16
Upper respiratory infections	12,851	2%	10	16	28	319	874	4,765	18
Neoplasm	46,768	6%	28	47	84	11,135	22,537	53,415	5
Uterine Fibroid	11,355	1%	33	44	55	10,495	15,172	21,898	9
Breast cancer	6,904	1%	29	55	124	17,477	37,032	75,520	3
Circulatory	45,829	6%	21	38	76	7,026	22,094	52,964	6
Coronary heart disease	7,429	1%	23	44	83	18,181	40,172	75,579	3
Essential hypertension	5,100	1%	17	30	57	733	2,734	9,528	15
Acute myocardial infarction	4,191	1%	25	41	69	26,898	41,431	64,883	4
Acute cerebrovascular disease	3,523	<1%	37	75	168	15,958	32,309	76,272	6
Genitourinary	44,290	6%	19	33	50	6,637	12,391	20,837	9
Nervous	43,126	5%	20	38	75	1,898	5,236	11,296	12
Metabolic	21,921	3%	20	30	48	5,309	18,338	31,661	8
Infectious	21,661	3%	15	27	53	1,017	5,997	19,379	12
Skin	14,597	2%	16	28	50	1,310	5,434	15,211	12

^*Medical condition groups defined using Agency for Health Research and Quality's Clinical Classification Software Groupings.¹⁶

^†Diagnostic category percentages may not add to 100 because of rounding.