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meps.ahrq.gov/survey_comp/hc_ques_sections.jsp
January 01, 2022 - Most critically for AFs, the CM section collects an email address and cellphone number for each adult … Health Status section continues to assess the physical and mental health status for both children and adults … Health Status section continues to assess the physical and mental health status for both children and adults … Health Status section continues to assess the physical and mental health status for both children and adults … The Social and Health Experiences Self-Administered Questionnaire was administered to adults
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_stats/download_data/pufs/h173/h173doc.shtml
December 01, 2016 - The survey was designed to collect a variety of
person-level preventive health care data for adults. … A sample of adults age 35
and older as of the Round 5 interview date (AGE53X >= 35) in MEPS households … BMI categories for adults are the following:
Underweight = BMI is less than 18.5,
Normal Weight … Adult height and weight were not top- or bottom-coded
prior to the construction of the adult BMI. … The building block variable INCH_HGT was calculated as
[(HGT_FT * 12) + (HGT_IN)] to indicate total adult
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meps.ahrq.gov/communication/participants/HealthCareInformation.pdf
September 17, 2024 - Diagnostic tests such as blood work, X-rays, mammograms, MRI or CAT scans
Vaccinations for children and adults
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/cb2/cb2.shtml
February 01, 1999 - Health insurance, all ages
Return To Table Of Contents Is health insurance different for young adults … Young adults ages 19-24 were the age group most likely to lack health care coverage. … In contrast, more than 60 percent of white young adults had such coverage. … Among young adults, Hispanic and black women were far more likely to be publicly insured than their male … Among young adults of both sexes, Hispanics and blacks were more likely than their white counterparts
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st396/stat396.shtml
January 01, 2013 - While inpatient expenses comprised about one-third of total expenses for adults, only 22.8 percent of … Expenses for prescribed medicines comprised over one-fifth of expenses for adults aged 18–64 (21.5 percent … insurance paid for 43.9 percent of expenses for children under age 18 and 53.8 percent for non-elderly adults … two-thirds of expenses (63.2 percent) for persons age 65 and older versus only 8.9 percent for younger adults … almost one-third (29.8 percent) of expenses for children under age 18 compared to only 11.6 percent for adults
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st282/stat282.shtml
April 01, 2010 - Adults ages 18 and over with at least a 4-year college degree (9.8 percent) were less likely than those … Adults ages 18 and over with at least a 4-year college degree were less likely than those with less education … An estimated 9.8 percent of adults with at least a 4-year college degree were unable to get or delayed … getting needed medical care, dental care, or prescription medicines compared with 13.7 percent for adults … This same pattern of adults with at least a 4-year college degree being less likely than those with less
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st549/stat549.shtml
July 01, 2023 - Age groups (figure 2 and tables 2a,b)
Nearly 5 percent of adults between the ages of 45 … and 64 and 4.5 percent of adults ages 18-44 had a medical visit or
prescribed medicine purchase … $4,000 for
people older than 45, while average costs for children ages 5-17 and younger adults … This difference is partially attributable to the fact that older adults were more likely to have a hospital … inpatient stay or emergency room visit (38.2 percent of adults ages 65+ vs. 12.4 percent
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meps.ahrq.gov/communication/whats_new.jsp
July 11, 2025 - New Publications
Statistical Brief 562: Healthcare Expenditures for Heart Disease among Adults
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meps.ahrq.gov/communication/household_participant_faqs.jsp
In many households, one knowledgeable adult household member answers questions for the entire family.
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meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/communication/household_participant_faqs.jsp
In many households, one knowledgeable adult household member answers questions for the entire family.
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meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/survey_comp/hc_sample_size.jsp
September 13, 2024 - break down the number
of persons and families listed in the overall sample size by age,
adults
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meps.ahrq.gov/survey_comp/hc_sample_size.jsp
September 13, 2024 - break down the number
of persons and families listed in the overall sample size by age,
adults
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/cb16/cb16.pdf
December 31, 2003 - , elderly
Medicare beneficiaries, non-elderly Medicare
beneficiaries (under age 65), non-Medicare adults … of the $92.0 billion spent on prescription drugs by
the 175.9 million persons in the non-Medicare adult … One-quarter of the adult non-Medicare population
purchased at least one central nervous system agent … agents Cardiovascular agents Gastrointestinal agents
Top five therapeutic classes for non-Medicare adults … Adult/child—People are considered adults if their last
available age (for most persons, this is their
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st229/stat229.shtml
December 01, 2008 - expenses comprised 37.2 percent of expenses for persons age 65 and over compared to 26.8 percent for adults … Compared to adults, a substantially smaller share of total expenses for children under 18 was for prescribed … medicines (15.4 versus about 22 percent for adults 18 and over). … a substantially larger share of children's expenses was for dental services (20.3 percent) than for adults … one-quarter of expenses for children under 18 (23.7 percent), which was over twice the proportion for adults
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/rf41/rf41.shtml
May 01, 2019 - 2015, there were differences in appropriate receipt of clinical preventive services among American adults … For adults ages 35–64, persons without insurance coverage were less likely than those with insurance … ages 50–64 were less likely than adults ages 65–74 to have had such a discussion. … This SAQ was given to adults age 35 and older who completed their last MEPS interview during the January … Summary and Conclusions
This report presents estimates of the percentages of American adults age 35
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/rf15/rf15.shtml
January 01, 2001 - among the privately insured than the
publicly insured, higher among children and younger adults … than older
adults, and higher for Hispanics and blacks than for the group of whites … Among publicly insured Americans, a higher percent
of children (40.0 percent) than adults … Breaking this down further,
adults over age 44 were much less likely than younger adults … than older adults.
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/mr33/mr33.pdf
January 01, 2019 - specified domain would not have been sampled in a previously listed domain:
Domain Definition
Adult … ADL
At least one adult in HH has an ADL or IADL ((AGE = 70+ & ADLIADL1 = 1) or
(AGE = 18-69 & ADLIADL2 … High Expense At least one adult in HH (age 18-64) has probability >.40 of high expenditures. … Other Limit
At least one adult in HH has an “other limitation”
(AGE = 18-69 & ADLIAD2X = 2 & WORKLIMT … In 2011 only, a Cancer domain was also used:
Domain Definition
Cancer
At least one adult in HH has
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/mr33/mr33.shtml
January 01, 2019 - ADL
At least one adult in HH has an ADL or IADL ((AGE = 70+ & ADLIADL1 = 1) or (AGE = 18-69 & ADLIADL2 … High Expense
At least one adult in HH (age 18-64) has probability >.40 of high expenditures. … Other Limit
At least one adult in HH has an "other limitation"
(AGE = 18-69 & ADLIAD2X = … In 2011 only, a Cancer domain was also used:
Domain
Definition
Cancer
At least one adult … /P1,3
TOTAL
N/A
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10,597
1997/P2
Q1,2,3/P1,3
TOTAL
14,706
0.428
6,300
Adult
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/rf49/rf49.shtml
July 01, 2021 - Insurance coverage for people 65 and older
Medicare and private: Elderly adults were classified … Medicare and public only: Elderly adults were classified as having Medicare and public-only insurance … Medicare only: Elderly adults were classified as having Medicare only if they were covered by Medicare … *Indicates that the relative standard error > 30%.
1 A small percentage (0.27%) of elderly adults … *Indicates that the relative standard error > 30%.
1 A small percentage (0.27%) of elderly adults
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meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/rf49/rf49.pdf
December 04, 2020 - Insurance coverage for people 65 and older
• Medicare and private: Elderly adults were classified as … • Medicare and public only: Elderly adults were classified as having Medicare
and public-only insurance … • Medicare only: Elderly adults were classified as having Medicare only if they
were covered by … • No Medicare: Elderly adults who reported no Medicare coverage during the
year comprised a small … Indicates that the relative standard error > 30%.
1 A small percentage (0.27%) of elderly adults