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EVEXPWC
Amount of direct health care payments made by worker's compensation

Description

For dental, other medical, office-based, and home health events (EVENTYPE), EVEXPWC captures the direct payments made by Worker's Compensation for care provided during the event. Payments for over-the-counter drugs and indirect payments not related to specific medical events, such as Medicaid Disproportionate Share and Medicare Direct Medical Education subsidies, are not included in this amount. For more information on how MEPS collects expenditure data, please refer to our user note on medical expenditures. The universe for this variable changes over time, please see the universe tab for more details.

IPUMS MEPS reports the universe for each variable based on a thorough review of the original MEPS documentation. Investigating the data may reveal cases that do not meet the stated universe. Users are encouraged to validate universes for their analyses.

The sum of EVEXPWCDR and EVEXPWCFAC (available for emergency room visits, inpatient hospitalization stays, and outpatient visits event types) is equivalent to EVEXPWC (available for dental, other medical, office-based and home health event types).

EVEXPWC is on the event record (see RECTYPE for more details on the different record types in IPUMS MEPS). Variables offered on the event record through IPUMS MEPS are derived from the dental visits, other medical expenses, hospital inpatient stays, emergency room visits, outpatient visits, office-based medical provider visits, and home health event files provided by AHRQ. Please see our overview of the event, medical conditions, and prescribed medicines variables, including how those variables are offered through IPUMS MEPS, and general considerations to keep in mind when conducting analyses using these variables.