Out-of-pocket payments in the Austrian healthcare system – a distributional analysis

Table 1 Expenditure for total OOPP and OOPP categories

Expenditure	Total households (HH)		HH with expenditure > 0		Total health expenditure
Categories	Average exp.	Percentage	Average exp.	Number of HH	Percentage
Prescription fee	6.79	6.59	34.59	1,183	−^b)
OTC pharmaceuticals	10.88	10.55	41.08	1,596	13.00
Therapeutic aids	44.28	42.96	86.04	3,100	5.00
Physician services^a	26.55	25.76	207.42	771	71.00
Other expenditure	14.58	14.14	54.12	1,623	11.00
Total OOPP	103.08	100.00	136.68	4,543	100.00

^aIncludes inpatient and outpatient physician services as well as dental services
^bPrescription fees are not a health expenditure category in this expenditure classification. The source for the last column is [31]

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