National Inpatient Hospital Costs: The Most Expensive Conditions By Payer, 2013 Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project Statistical Brief #204

In May 2016, the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released this statistical brief regarding national inpatient hospital costs. This statistical brief presents data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) on the costs of hospital inpatient stays in the United States in 2013. It describes the distribution of costs by expected primary payer and illustrates the conditions accounting for the largest percentage of each payer’'s hospital costs . . .