Description

For all persons, OPPREXSRC is a set of summary expenditure variables indicating the total amount paid for health care expenditures for separately billed services expenses associated with outpatient medical providers by source of payment during the current calendar year. By adding OPPREXSRC to your data cart, you are in effect adding fourteen annual summary outpatient provider separately billed service expenditure variables. These variables include:

• OPPREXSELF: Annual total direct health care payments made by self/family for separately billed services expenses from outpatient providers

• OPPREXMC: Annual total of direct health care payments made by Medicare for separately billed services expenses from outpatient providers

• OPPREXMA: Annual total of direct health care payments made by Medicaid for separately billed services expenses from outpatient providers

• OPPREXPR: Annual total of direct health care payments made by private insurance for separately billed services expenses from outpatient providers

• OPPREXVA: Annual total of direct health care payments made by the Veterans' Administration for separately billed services expenses from outpatient providers

• OPPREXTR: Annual total of direct health care payments made by TRICARE for separately billed services expenses from outpatient providers

• OPPREXOF: Annual total of direct health care payments made by other Federal sources for separately billed services expenses from outpatient providers

• OPPREXOL: Annual total of direct health care payments made by other State and local sources for separately billed services expenses from outpatient providers

• OPPREXWC: Annual total of direct health care payments made by Worker's Compensation for separately billed services expenses from outpatient providers

• OPPREXOPR: Annual total of direct health care payments from other private source for separately billed services expenses from outpatient providers

• OPPREXOPU: Annual total of direct health care payments from other public source for separately billed services expenses from outpatient providers

• OPPREXOS: Annual total of direct health care payments made by other unclassified sources for separately billed services expenses from outpatient providers

• OPPREXPTR: Annual total of direct health care payments made by private insurance and TRICARE for separately billed services expenses from outpatient providers

• OPPREXOTH: Annual total of direct health care payments made by all other sources for separately billed services expenses from outpatient providers

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.

OPPREXSRC is a 1-digit numeric variable.

Comparability

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

Universe

Availability

• 1996-2021

Weights

• 1996-2021 : PERWEIGHT

Flags

This variable has no flags.