Celeste M. Torio, Ph.D., M.P.H., and Brian J. Moore, Ph.D.
Introduction Health care expenditures have maintained a relatively stable share of the Gross Domestic Product since 2009, reaching 17.5 percent in 2014.1 Hospital care expenditures in particular, which constitute the largest single component of health care spending, grew 4.1 percent in 2014.2 Although this is up from 3.5 percent in 2013, annual hospital care expenditure growth averaged 5.5 percent from 2008 through 2012.3 Policymakers are among those concerned with the burden of medical care expenses to governments, consumers, and insurers. Although only 7.2 percent of the U.S. population had a hospital inpatient stay in 2012, the mean expense per stay associated with those hospitalizations was over $18,000, making hospitalization one of the most expensive types of health care treatment.4,5
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May 2018
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