Out-of-Pocket Spending for Ambulatory Physical Therapy Services From 2008 to 2012: National Panel Survey

Julia Chevan; Daniel L. Riddle; Shelby D. Reed

doi:10.2522/ptj.20150018

Figures

Figure 1.

Sample construction and composition from Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) public use files to a single analytic file. PT=physical therapy.

Figure 2.

Distribution of out-of-pocket expenditures for episodes of physical therapy (PT) 2008–2012. The first column represents all episodes with an out-of-pocket expenditure, and the second column represents all the out-of-pocket expenditures made for PT episodes of care. The shading shows proportionally how the episodes correspond to a share of the total out-of-pocket expenditures made for episodes of PT. For example, 1% of the PT episodes correspond to 14.6% of the total expenditures, and this 1% has a mean per episode expenditure of $5,246 and expenditure per visit of $304.

Tables

Table 1.

Sample Characteristics and Expenditures for an Episode of Physical Therapy^{^a}

↵^a MSA=metropolitan statistical area, CI=confidence interval.

Table 2.

Characteristics of Episodes of Care With OOP Expenditures^{^a}

↵^a OOP=out-of-pocket, MSA=metropolitan statistical area, CI=confidence interval.

Table 3.

Factors Associated With OOP Expenditures for an Episode of Physical Therapy^{^a}

↵^a OOP=out-of-pocket, MSA=metropolitan statistical area, CI=confidence interval, Ref=reference.
^b n=53,004,787 weighted episodes.
^c n=28,451,157 weighted episodes with OOP expenditure.