Long-term out of pocket expenditure of people with cancer: comparing health service cost and use for indigenous and non-indigenous people with cancer in Australia

Table 7 Estimated number of services if Indigenous people had equal access to non-Indigenous people

BTOS	BTOS code	Actual average number of services accessed	Actual average cost of services accessed	Counterfactual average number of services if access was equal	Estimated average patient co-payment if access was equal
Non-referred attendances – GP/VRGP	101	29	$73	33	$83.5
Non-referred attendances – enhanced primary care	102	6	$0.05	4	$0.03
Non-referred attendances – other	103	5	$23	4	$17
Non-referred attendances – practice nurse items	110	4	$0.09	3	$0.06
Other allied health	150	10	$20	9	$17.9
Specialist attendances	200	14	$260	30	$561.8
Anaesthetics	400	3	$581	4	$815.3
Pathology collection items	501	32	$11	47	$15.7
Pathology tests	502	39	$110	67	$189.5
Diagnostic imaging	600	11	$113	16	$168.7
Operations	700	6	$671	8	$877.5
Assistance at operations	800	2	$367	1	$241.3
Optometry	900	2	$0.6	2	$0.5
Other MBS Services	1000	37	$159	39	$167.2
Radiotherapy and therapeutic nuclear medicine	1100	35	$86	42	$103.2
ALL BTOS combined		236	$1191	309	$3242.5

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