Characteristics Of Emergency Department Visits For Super-Utilizers By Payer, 2014

On February 15, 2017, the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released this statistical brief regarding the characteristics of emergency department visits for super-utilizers by payer for 2014. The brief extends AHRQ’s earlier work on super-utilizers by shifting focus from hospital inpatient stays to emergency department visits. The brief presents pooled 2014 emergency department data across 13 geographically dispersed States, representing approximately 28 percent of the U.S. population. Data was limited to emergency department visits among patients who were treated and released from the emergency department, transferred to another type of non-hospital health facility . . .