Out - of - pocket medical expenses, inpatient and outpatient care, emergency room visits and prescription drugs all contribute to
the added health care expenditures, with inpatient prescriptions contributing the most, An said.
To make this adjustment, we assumed the self - insured / self administered
health plans and TPAs have the average revenue of the
health plans contained in the SIC code, and then
added those assumed revenues to the SIC code and to the total of all
health care expenditures.