---
language:
- en
pretty_name: 'Delay or nonreceipt of needed medical care, prescription drugs, or dental
  care during the past 12 months due to cost: United States'
tags:
- hhs
- cdc
- age
- medicaid
- poverty
- prescriptions
- schools
- sex
---

# Delay or nonreceipt of needed medical care, prescription drugs, or dental care during the past 12 months due to cost: United States

## Description

Data on delay or nonreceipt of needed medical care, nonreceipt of needed prescription drugs, or nonreceipt of needed dental care during the past 12 months due to cost by selected population characteristics. Please refer to the PDF or Excel version of this table in the HUS 2019 Data Finder (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/contents2019.htm) for critical information about measures, definitions, and changes over time. 

SOURCE: NCHS, National Health Interview Survey, Family Core, Sample Child, and Sample Adult questionnaires. Data for level of difficulty are from the 2010 Quality of Life, 2011-2017 Functioning and Disability, and 2018 Sample Adult questionnaires. For more information on the National Health Interview Survey, see the corresponding Appendix entry at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus19-appendix-508.pdf.

## Dataset Details

- **Publisher**: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- **Temporal Coverage**: 1997-01-01/2018-12-31
- **Geographic Coverage**: United States
- **Last Modified**: 2025-04-21
- **Contact**: National Center for Health Statistics (healthus@cdc.gov)

## Source

Original data can be found at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus

## Usage

You can load this dataset using:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset
 dataset = load_dataset('HHS-Official/delay-or-nonreceipt-of-needed-medical-care-prescri')
```
## License

This dataset is licensed under https://www.usa.gov/government-works