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This study aims to identify the monthly average medical expenses of public pension recipients, and analyze the determinants of total medical expenses and Western and Oriental medicine expenses/expenditure, along with the determinants of health supplement expenses, medical service expenses, and medical supplies expenses. This study used the fifth year data of 2013 out of the raw data of the Korean Retirement and Income Study collected by the National Pension Research Institute. To compare with the determinants of health and medical expenses of public pension recipients, this study analyzed 1,136 respondents receiving public pension, while they were in the state of retirement, excluding no-responding persons and error responses, as the final subject of the analysis. According to the recipients’ monthly average household expenditure was about KRW 1.75 million. Total medical expenses were about KRW 131,000, Western and Oriental medicine expenses were about KRW 50,000, and health supplement expenses were about KRW 24,000. Medical service expenses were approximately KRW 42,000 and health and medical supplies and devices expenses were analyzed to be KRW 7,000. Multi-regression analysis results, all item expenses rose as expenditure size, which is income’s surrogate variable, increased. More family members living together had a significant influence on total health and medical expenses, as the number of chronic diseases increased, it became a factor in the increase of total health and medical expenses and Western and Oriental medicine expenses. The findings in this study have significance in that the health and medical expenses factors of Korean public pension recipients have been analyzed.