Description

For all persons, OBOPTEXSRC is a set of summary expenditure variables indicating the total amount paid for health care expenditures for care from office-based optometrists by source of payment during the current calendar year. By adding OBOPTEXSRC to your data cart, you are in effect adding fourteen annual summary office-based optometrist expenditure variables. These variables include:

• OBOPTEXSEL: Annual total direct health care payments made by self/family to office-based optometrists

• OBOPTEXMC: Annual total of direct health care payments made by Medicare to office-based optometrists

• OBOPTEXMA: Annual total of direct health care payments made by Medicaid to office-based optometrists

• OBOPTEXPR: Annual total of direct health care payments made by private insurance to office-based optometrists

• OBOPTEXVA: Annual total of direct health care payments made by the Veterans' Administration to office-based optometrists

• OBOPTEXTR: Annual total of direct health care payments made by TRICARE to office-based optometrists

• OBOPTEXOF: Annual total of direct health care payments made by other Federal sources to office-based optometrists

• OBOPTEXOL: Annual total of direct health care payments made by other State and local sources to office-based optometrists

• OBOPTEXWC: Annual total of direct health care payments made by Worker's Compensation to office-based optometrists

• OBOPTEXOPR: Annual total of direct health care payments from other private source to office-based optometrists

• OBOPTEXOPU: Annual total of direct health care payments from other public source to office-based optometrists

• OBOPTEXOS: Annual total of direct health care payments made by other unclassified sources to office-based optometrists

• OBOPTEXPTR: Annual total of direct health care payments made by private insurance and TRICARE to office-based optometrists

• OBOPTEXOT: Annual total of direct health care payments made by all other sources to office-based optometrists

Related variables
Variables related to total annual health care expenditures by source of payment, total annual health care expenditures by type of medical service, and total annual health care charges are also available. Please refer to our user note on expenditures for a list of these variables.

OBOPTEXSRC is a 1-digit numeric variable.

Comparability

See links to individual variables for more information about comparability over time.

Universe

Availability

• 1996-2016

Weights

• 1996-2016 : PERWEIGHT

Flags

This variable has no flags.