StateMaster - South Carolina Health statistics

% of Nursing Homes w/ Serious Deficiencies	28.6%	[4th of 51]
% of Nursing Homes with No Deficiencies	3.6 %	[40th of 51]
% of PDPs with a $0 Deductible	53 %	[49th of 51]
% of PDPs with a $250 Deductible	40 %	[1st of 51]
% Point Change in ESI	-10.9 %	[46th of 51]
% Point Change in Individual Insurance	-0.2	[32nd of 51]
% Point Change in Uninsured	-0.8	[27th of 51]
Abortion Rate	8	[39th of 47]
Abortions by Out-of-State Residents	5.3%	[28th of 44]
ADAP Financial Eligibility Criteria	300	[19th of 52]
ADAP Insurance Purchasing/Maintenance Funds	$800,000.00	[11th of 26]
ADAP Total Drug Expenditures	$1,117,558.00	[17th of 51]
Admissions	122	[20th of 51]
Adult physical disabilities	7.2%	[9th of 54]
Aged SSI	13,872	[21st of 51]
Aged SSI as % of Population Ages 65+	2.7 %	[20th of 51]
AIDS Case Rate All Ages	18.1	[10th of 51]
Alcohol Abuse or Dependence	8.26%	[19th of 51]
Alcohol consumption > Binge drinkers	13.5%	[35th of 52]
Alcohol consumption > Casual drinkers	47.5%	[40th of 52]
Alcohol consumption > Heavy drinkers	5.6%	[14th of 52]
Alcohol related traffic fatalities	464	[11th of 51]
Alcohol related traffic fatalities (per capita)	1.09 per 10,000 people	[6th of 51]
Alcohol related traffic fatalities, as a percentage	44%	[10th of 51]
Alcohol Use in the Past Month	43.74%	[42nd of 51]
Alligator Attacks	9	[4th of 10]
Alligator Attacks (per capita)	2.115 per 1 million people	[2nd of 10]
Annual Reported HIV Cases All Ages	571	[14th of 39]
Asthma > Adult cases	11.7%	[45th of 52]
Attempts to Quit Smoking	56.7 %	[17th of 50]
Autism > Cumulative Growth in Autism Cases	824%	[35th of 56]
Autism > Number of Children with Autism	1,523	[26th of 56]
Autism > Number of Children with Autism (per capita)	3.579 per 10,000 people	[43rd of 56]
Average Monthly MA Payment Rates (Weighted)	$0.00	[36th of 48]
Avg # of Nursing Home Deficiencies	9.2	[14th of 51]
Avg. Annual % Growth, FY1980-2000	10.3 %	[5th of 51]
Baseline Dual Eligible Enrollment	108,624	[16th of 51]
Baseline FFS Drug Payments for Duals	$240,549,538.00	[23rd of 51]
Beds	2.68	[29th of 51]
Birth Rate per 1,000	13.4	[32nd of 51]
Births Financed by Medicaid As Percent of State Births	45.2%	[11th of 48]
Births of Low Birthweight as a % of Births	10.1 %	[4th of 51]
Blind & Disabled SSI	91,821	[21st of 51]
Blind & Disabled SSI as % of Population	2.2 %	[13th of 51]
C-Section births	28.6%	[7th of 51]
Cancer Death Rate per 100,000	204.4	[13th of 51]
Cancer Incidence per 100,000	446	[33rd of 44]
CARE Act Total Funding	$26,316,471.00	[17th of 51]
Change in % of Preterm Births, '90-'03	18 %	[33rd of 51]
Change in Medicaid Enrollment, 2003-04	-3.2 %	[50th of 51]
Change in Number of Children with Individual Insurance	-2,398	[35th of 51]
Change in Number of Uninsured Children	-7,979	[23rd of 34]
Change in Number Uninsured	125,672	[18th of 51]
Change in Number with ESI	-114,715	[41st of 51]
Change in SCHIP Enrollment, 2003-04	13 %	[13th of 49]
Change in Teen Birth Rate, '91-'03	-29 %	[26th of 51]
Child Death Rate	26	[13th of 50]
Chlamydia Cases	14,623	[20th of 50]
Chlamydia Rate	356	[10th of 50]
Cholesterol Screening Rate	21 %	[40th of 51]
Cigarette Use in the Past Month	26.93%	[20th of 51]
Cocaine Use	2.44%	[23rd of 51]
Colonoscopy testing	55.9%	[19th of 52]
Colorectal Cancer Screening	24.9%	[34th of 52]
Cum. Rptd. HIV Cases Adult/Adolescent	6,897	[9th of 36]
Cumulative AIDS Cases Adult/Adolescent	11,989	[18th of 51]
Cumulative AIDS Cases All Ages	12,089	[18th of 51]
Cumulative AIDS Cases All Ages (per capita)	2.841 per 1,000 people	[12th of 51]
Cumulative AIDS Cases Pediatric	100	[18th of 51]
Cumulative Reported HIV Cases All Ages	6,991	[9th of 40]
Cumulative Reported HIV Cases Pediatric	94	[11th of 39]
Current Annual Appropriation	$11,669,000.00	[48th of 49]
Current Monthly Enrollment, June 2004	656,552	[21st of 51]
Current Monthly SCHIP Enrollment, Dec 2004	51,469	[20th of 49]
Death Rate per 100,000	949.5	[11th of 51]
Deaths Among Persons with AIDS	5,691	[19th of 51]
Deaths due to HIV	301	[13th of 51]
Diabetes	8.2%	[7th of 52]
Diabetes Death Rate per 100,000	27.5	[19th of 51]
Diabetes per 100 Adults	8.1	[5th of 51]
Disability prevalence	18.6%	[23rd of 54]
Duals Spending as a % of Medicaid	31 %	[38th of 51]
Emergency Room Visits	436	[13th of 51]
Expenses per Inpatient Day	$1,355.00	[26th of 51]
Fire death rate	21.4	[4th of 51]
Flu shot	66%	[39th of 52]
Fruits and vegetables consumption	22.3%	[31st of 54]
Gonorrhea Cases	8,518	[16th of 50]
Gonorrhea Rate	207.4	[3rd of 50]
Growth in Medicaid Spending, FY1991-01	12 %	[24th of 51]
Hazardous Materials Incidents > Deaths and Injuries	2	[22nd of 51]
Hazardous Materials Incidents > Deaths and Injuries (per capita)	0.47 per 1 million people	[16th of 51]
Hazardous Materials Incidents > Total number	185	[29th of 51]
Hazardous Materials Incidents > Total number (per capita)	0.435 per 10,000 people	[27th of 51]
HCBS Aged & Aged/Disabled	14,131	[14th of 50]
Health Care as a % of Total Employment	7.6 %	[32nd of 51]
Health Index	-10.63	[43rd of 50]
Health Spending as % Gross State Product	4.3 %	[8th of 50]
Heart Disease Death Rate per 100,000	244.7	[20th of 51]
High blood pressure	28.8%	[10th of 54]
High cholesterol	33.4%	[24th of 54]
HIV Death Rate	7.4	[10th of 42]
HIV Testing Rate > Ever Tested	51 %	[8th of 51]
HIV Testing Rate > Past 12 Months	33.9 %	[6th of 51]
HMO Enrollment Growth	-5.7 %	[25th of 49]
HMO Penetration Rate	5.4	[43rd of 49]
Home Health Services	67	[27th of 51]
HOPWA Funding	$3,075,000.00	[16th of 51]
Hospice Services	62	[7th of 51]
Hospital Outpatient Services	721	[19th of 51]
HPV vaccine > Opt Out Policy	Yes
HPV vaccine > Proposal Bill would require girls entering the seventh grade or 11 years of age to be vaccinated. Allows parents to opt their daughters out on medical or religious grounds.
HPV vaccine > Status	Pending
Illicit Drug Use	7.2%	[41st of 51]
Illicit Drug Use other than Marijuana	3.6%	[26th of 51]
Infant Death Rate	9.3	[4th of 51]
Influenza Vaccines	69.4 %	[23rd of 51]
Inpatient Census	993	[21st of 50]
Inpatient Days	711	[22nd of 51]
Limited Activity Days per Month	1.5	[47th of 50]
Low-Income Subsidy Eligible Medicare PDPs	16	[27th of 51]
MA Total Enrollment	0	[45th of 51]
Mammogram Rate for Women 50-69 years	85 %	[10th of 51]
Mammogram testing	72.1%	[35th of 52]
Marijuana Use in the Past Month	5.74%	[30th of 51]
Marijuana Use in the Past Year	9.97%	[34th of 51]
MC Enrollment as a % of Medicaid Enrollment	8.4 %	[48th of 51]
Medicaid Managed Care Capitation Rates	$136.00	[26th of 36]
Medicaid Payments per Enrollee, FY2002	$3,009.00	[43rd of 49]
Medicare as % of Health Care Spending	19.7 %	[23rd of 51]
Medicare Beneficiaries Below 150% FPL	30 %	[8th of 48]
Medicare Enrollment as a % of Total Pop	15 %	[23rd of 51]
Mental Health > State Expenditures Per Capita	$74.00	[25th of 51]
Motor Vehicle Death Rate	2	[10th of 50]
Needing Treatment for Alcohol Use	7.73%	[20th of 51]
Needing Treatment for Drug Use	2.6%	[33rd of 51]
New AIDS Cases Adult/Adolescent	752	[15th of 51]
New AIDS Cases All Ages	759	[15th of 51]
New AIDS Cases Pediatric	7	[5th of 51]
No. of MA Contract Withdrawals	65	[1st of 49]
Non-medical Use of Pain Relievers	5.01%	[27th of 51]
Nonfederal Physicians per 100,000 Population	231	[35th of 51]
Nonfederal Primary Care Physicians	41 %	[30th of 51]
Number of Abortions	7,014	[25th of 43]
Number of Births	55,649	[25th of 51]
Number of Births of Low Birthweight	5,595	[22nd of 51]
Number of HMOs	4	[35th of 50]
Number of Infant Deaths	508	[20th of 51]
Number of Inpatient Beds	1,023	[22nd of 50]
Number of MA Contracts	0	[50th of 51]
Number of Medicare PDPs	45	[12th of 51]
Number of Nursing Home Residents	15,375	[29th of 51]
Number of Nursing Homes	168	[32nd of 51]
Number of Special Care Beds	520	[40th of 51]
Nursing Home Occupancy Rates	92.3 %	[10th of 51]
Nursing Home Residents as % of 65+ Pop	3 %	[39th of 51]
Obesity > Obese adults > %	27.8%	[5th of 51]
Obesity > Overweight adults > %	63.7%	[9th of 51]
Obesity > Overweight children > %	18.9%	[7th of 51]
Obesity Rate	22 %	[17th of 51]
Occupational Fatality Rate	6.1	[15th of 51]
Oral health > Loss of natural teeth	21.8%	[24th of 52]
Oral health > Visits to the dentist	68.6%	[34th of 52]
Organizations Offering Medicare PDPs	19	[10th of 51]
Outpatient Visits	1,784	[33rd of 51]
Overall Child Health Status	82.6%	[42nd of 51]
Overweight and Obesity Rate	59.3 %	[8th of 51]
Pap Smear Rate	87 %	[18th of 50]
Percent of Firms Offering Coverage	54.6 %	[28th of 51]
Percent of Women who had Dental Visit	68.9 %	[38th of 51]
Percent of Women with Arthritis	37.5 %	[25th of 51]
Percent of Women with High Blood Pressure	29.1 %	[9th of 51]
Percent Who Are Immunized	80 %	[35th of 51]
Percent with some health care coverage	83%	[34th of 52]
Perception of Alcohol Consumption Risk	42.77%	[16th of 51]
Perception of Cigarette Smoking Risk	70.72%	[38th of 51]
Perception of Marijuana Smoking Risk	44.06%	[9th of 51]
Persons Living with AIDS All Ages	6,554	[16th of 51]
Persons with AIDS Adult/Adolescent	6,525	[16th of 51]
Persons with AIDS Pediatric	29	[15th of 51]
Physical exercise	76.1%	[30th of 52]
Physician and Supplier Services	984	[20th of 51]
Physician Assistants per 10,000 Population	1	[46th of 51]
Pneumococcal Vaccines	64.9 %	[17th of 51]
Prenatal Care	77.5 %	[45th of 49]
Preterm Births as a % of Births	14.5 %	[5th of 51]
Prevalence of Asthma	6.6 %	[49th of 51]
Prevalence of Poor Mental Health	34.5 %	[19th of 50]
Prostate cancer testing	54.5%	[8th of 52]
Ratio of Abortions to Live Births	126	[33rd of 42]
Registered Nurses per 10,000 Population	70	[39th of 51]
Resident population with serious mental illness	168,913	[26th of 52]
Resident population with serious mental illness (per capita)	0.397 per 10 people	[25th of 52]
Retail Rx Drugs Per Capita	13.6	[6th of 51]
Rx Spending as a % of Duals Spending	17 %	[15th of 51]
Serious Psychological Distress	10.1%	[18th of 51]
Short-Stay Hospitals	382	[16th of 51]
Skilled Nursing Facility Admissions	48	[45th of 51]
Skilled Nursing Facility Days of Care	1,330	[39th of 51]
SSDI Beneficiaries as % of Population	5.2 %	[7th of 51]
SSI Beneficiaries as % of Population	2.5 %	[14th of 51]
Stroke Death Rate per 100,000	72.7	[2nd of 51]
Suicides	476	[26th of 51]
Suicides (per capita)	0.112 per 1,000 people	[29th of 51]
Syphilis Cases	548	[18th of 50]
Syphilis Rate	13.3	[10th of 50]
Teen Birth Rate per 1,000	51.5	[13th of 51]
Teen Death Rate	68	[9th of 50]
Tobacco use > Everyday smokers	17.9%	[12th of 52]
Tobacco use > Former smokers	21.8%	[37th of 52]
Tobacco use > Occasional smokers	6.3%	[9th of 52]
Tobacco use > Total current smokers	24.3%	[12th of 52]
Total ADAP Budget	$13,939,209.00	[16th of 51]
Total ADAP Clients	1,531	[14th of 51]
Total ADAP Prescriptions Filled	4,627	[17th of 50]
Total Dentists	1,949	[27th of 51]
Total Dentists (per capita)	0.458 per 1,000 people	[42nd of 51]
Total Dual Eligible Enrollment in MC	343	[24th of 29]
Total Dual Eligible Medicaid Spending	$1,358.00	[24th of 51]
Total FQHC Encounters or Visits	1,086,791	[11th of 51]
Total FQHCs	21	[16th of 51]
Total FQHCs Service Delivery Sites	138	[11th of 51]
Total HCBS Waivers	5	[26th of 50]
Total Health Care Employment	135,420	[26th of 51]
Total Health Care Employment (per capita)	0.318 per 10 people	[36th of 51]
Total Health Clinics	95	[13th of 51]
Total Health Clinics (per capita)	22.326 per 1 million people	[16th of 51]
Total HMO Enrollment	225,123	[37th of 53]
Total HMO Enrollment (per capita)	5.291 per 100 people	[46th of 53]
Total Hospitals	61	[31st of 51]
Total Hospitals (per capita)	0.143 per 10,000 people	[35th of 51]
Total Medicaid Births	23,221	[21st of 49]
Total Medicaid Births (per capita)	0.546 per 100 people	[15th of 49]
Total Medicaid Enrollment, FY2002	895,800	[18th of 49]
Total Medicaid Enrollment, FY2002 (per capita)	0.211 per capita	[9th of 49]
Total Medicaid Spending, FY2004	$3,981,742,837.00	[24th of 51]
Total Medicaid Spending, FY2004 (per $ GDP)	$0.29 per $10 of GDP	[14th of 51]
Total Medicaid Spending, FY2004 (per capita)	$935.76 per capita	[23rd of 51]
Total Medicare Beneficiaries	624,139	[25th of 51]
Total Medicare Beneficiaries (per capita)	0.147 per capita	[22nd of 51]
Total Medicare Benefit Payments	$3,357.00	[22nd of 51]
Total Medicare Benefit Payments (per $ GDP)	$2.48 per $100 million of GDP	[12th of 51]
Total Medicare Benefit Payments (per capita)	$0.79 per 1,000 people	[21st of 51]
Total Nonfederal Physicians	9,687	[26th of 51]
Total Nonfederal Physicians (per capita)	0.228 per 100 people	[35th of 51]
Total Patients Served by FQHCs	282,500	[13th of 51]
Total Patients Served by FQHCs (per capita)	0.664 per 10 people	[11th of 51]
Total Personal Health Spending, FY2000	$14,937.00	[27th of 51]
Total Physician Assistants	447	[30th of 51]
Total Registered Nurses	28,610	[27th of 51]
Total Retail Rx Drugs	57,127,591	[21st of 51]
Total Sales for Retail Rx Drugs	$2,820,590,642.00	[24th of 51]
Total SSDI Beneficiaries	134,979	[19th of 51]
Total SSI Beneficiaries	105,693	[21st of 51]
Total State Expenditures on Mental Health	$299,401,952.00	[24th of 51]
Total State Expenditures on Mental Health (per $ GDP)	$0.22 per $100 of GDP	[17th of 51]
Total State Expenditures on Mental Health (per capita)	$70.36 per capita	[26th of 51]
Total State Health Care Spending	$5,526.00	[19th of 50]
Total State Health Care Spending (per $ GDP)	$0.41 per $10 million of GDP	[8th of 50]
Total State Health Care Spending (per capita)	$0.13 per 100 people	[17th of 50]
Total Tobacco Funds	$1,070,060,000.00	[14th of 50]
Twin Births Ratio	32	[19th of 51]

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