This database reports Personal Health Care Expenditures (PHC) and its component categories.  PHC is expressed as the sum of Hospital Care, Physician & Clinical Services, Other Professional Services, Dental Services, Home Health Care, Prescription Drugs and Other Non-durable Medical Products,Durable Medical Products, Nursing Home Care, and Other Health, Residential, and Personal Care.  Data are reported by calendar year. 

Expenditures in this database may not equal those in National Health Expenditures by Type of Service and Source of Funds because the latter is updated annually, while state-level data are updated every five years. For more information on expenditure categories, see the data source below.

Note: CMS has delayed the release of these data until 2017.