States with the highest hospital expenses since 2016:
- Washington’s daily cost per patient: $4,268, a 34 percent increase.
- Oregon’s daily cost per patient: $3,998, a 23 percent increase.
- New York’s daily cost per patient: $3,726, a 40 percent increase.
- Connecticut’s daily cost per patient: $3,698, a 23 percent increase.
- California’s daily cost per patient: $3,686, a 22 percent increase.
States with the lowest hospital expenses since 2016:
- Mississippi’s daily cost per patient: $1,436, a 7 percent increase.
- West Virginia’s daily cost per patient: $1,624, a 22 percent increase.
- Iowa’s daily cost per patient: $1,652, an 8 percent increase.
- Georgia’s daily cost per patient: $1,787, a 19 percent increase.
- Alabama’s daily cost per patient: $1,794, a 19 percent increase.
Key drivers of cost include medication, labor, and supplies. Totaled, expenses have increased by more than 20 percent in 29 states since 2016.
