Hospital Average Length of Stay, Charges and Costs by Payor
August 17, 2009
Here is a list of the average length of stay, charges and costs per patient for U.S. hospitals by payor type, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project 2007 national statistics.
| Payor type |
Average length of stay (days) |
Charges |
Costs |
| Medicare | 5.6 | $32,748 | $10,835 |
| Medicaid |
4.3 | $19,369 | $6,570 |
| Private Insurance | 3.8 | $23,600 |
$7,878 |
| Uninsured |
4.0 |
$21,442 |
$7,104 |
| Other | 4.5 |
$27,856 |
$8,958 |
| All payors |
4.6 |
$26,120 |
$8,692 |
Source: AHRQ HCUPnet.
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