Edited/Imputed Expenditure Variables (RXSF12X. RXXP12X) There are 13 expenditure variables included on this event file. All of these expenditures have gone through an editing and imputation process and have been rounded to the second decimal place. There is a sum of payments variable (RXXP12X) which, for each prescribed medicine event, sums all the expenditures from the various sources of payment. The 12 sources of payment expenditure variables for each prescribed medicine event are the following: amount paid by self or family (RXSF12X), amount paid by Medicare (RXMR12X), amount paid by Medicaid (RXMD12X), amount paid by private insurance (RXPV12X), amount paid by the Veterans Administration/CHAMPVA (RXVA12X), amount paid by TRICARE (RXTR12X), amount paid by other federal sources (RXOF12X), amount paid by state and local (non-federal) government sources (RXSL12X), amount paid by Worker’s Compensation (RXWC12X), and amount paid by some other source of insurance (RXOT12X). As mentioned previously, there are two additional expenditure variables called RXOR12X and RXOU12X (other private and other public, respectively). These two expenditure variables were created to maintain consistency between what the household respondent reported as a person’s private and public insurance status for hospitalization and physician coverage and third party prescription payments from other private and public sources (such as a separate private prescription policy or prescription coverage from the Veterans Administration, the Indian Health Service, or a state assistance program other than Medicaid). Users should exercise caution when interpreting the expenditures associated with these two additional sources of payment. While these payments stem from apparent inconsistent responses to health insurance and source of payment questions in the survey, some of these inconsistencies may have logical explanations. Please see Section 2.6.4 for details on these and all other source of payment variables.
