Healthcare Financing

Hospital charges are rising while length of hospital stays is falling

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, October 20th, 2002

The average hospital charge for treating a patient admitted for a heart attack increased by roughly one-third from 1993 to 2000, according to trend data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on all hospital patients in the United States, including those with private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid or no health insurance.

HCUPnet (www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup/hcupnet.htm), the agency's interactive, online hospital statistics tool, showed that the total average charge for treating a heart attack patient rose from $20,578 in 1993 to $28,663 in 2000, while during the same period the average number of days a patient spent in the hospital fell by 26% - from 7.4...

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Source: Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA (2002-10-20)

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