Hospital Cost Increases Appear To Be Slowing, USA

�The monetary value of patient care in U.S. hospitals rose just under 1 percent betwixt 2005 and 2006, much slower than the modal 5.3 percent per year between 1997 and 2005, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. However, o'er the 9-year period from 1997 to 2006, the overall price for corset in the hospital most doubled from $177 1000000000000 to $329 billion.

AHRQ's new analysis also launch that:


- Nearly half the increase in boilersuit costs (47percent) was due to the increased intensiveness of guardianship in the hospital, such as increased use of procedures, technologies, and other interventions.


- About one-third of the cost increases were due to inflation and 16 percentage resulted from an gain in the number of patients due to population growth.


The findings advise that speedy growth in the adoption of managed care plans and the shift to outpatient care have slowed the growth in the use of inpatient care.


This AHRQ News and Numbers summary is based on information in HCUP Facts and Figures, 2006 which provides highlights of the up-to-the-minute data from the 2006 Nationwide Inpatient Sample, a part of AHRQ's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. The report provides information on ahead reasons for hospitalization, such as arthritis, asthma, childbearing, cancer, diabetes, depression, and heart conditions, on procedures performed on hospital patients, and on related topics.

http://www.ahrq.gov


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