Although this growth rate is up from 3.5 percent in 2013, annual hospital care expenditure growth was an average of 5.5 percent from 2008 through 2012, according to the report.
There were 35.6 million hospital stays in 2013, totaling $381.4 billion in aggregate costs. Here is the breakdown of hospital stays by payer, according to AHRQ.
- Medicare — 39 percent
- Private insurance — 30 percent
- Medicaid — 21 percent
- Uninsured — 6 percent
- Other/missing — 4 percent
The percentages of aggregate hospital costs by payer are as follows.
- Medicare — 46 percent
- Private insurance — 28 percent
- Medicaid — 17 percent
- Uninsured — 5 percent
- Other/missing — 4 percent
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