Characteristics Of Hospital Stays For Super-Utilizers By Payer, 2012

Released in May 2015, this statistical brief posted by the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) describes super-utilizers, which were defined as privately insured patients with three or more hospital stays in 2012 or patients covered by Medicare or Medicaid with four or more stays in 2012. Approximately one-fourth of U.S. health care expenses are incurred by 1% of the U.S. population, and half of expenses are incurred by 5% of the population . . .