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TABLE 2.7
Expenditures and Source of Funds for Nursing Home and Home Health Care: United States, 1997

Source of Funds Nursing Home Care Home Health Care

Expenditures
(billion
dollars) Percent
of total Expenditures
(billion
dollars) Percent
of total

Personal health care expenditures^a $82.8 100.0 $32.3 100.0

Medicare 10.1 12.2 12.8 39.6

Medicaid (federal and state) 39.4 47.6 4.8 14.9

Private health insurance 4.0 4.8 3.7 11.5

Out-of-pocket payments 25.7 31.0 7.0 21.7

Other 3.6 4.3 4.0 12.4

^aHCFA's count of health care expenditures uses a narrow definition of home health expenditures, excluding personal care services and many other HCBS expenditures.
SOURCE: Braden et al., 1998, pp. 124–125.

TABLE 2.7 Expenditures and Source of Funds for Nursing Home and Home Health Care: United States, 1997

TABLE 2.7
Expenditures and Source of Funds for Nursing Home and Home Health Care: United States, 1997