Other key findings from the AHRQ research include the following:
• There were 6.4 million hospital stays for children 17 years and younger in 2009 — nearly 17 percent of all hospital stays.
• In 2009, 45 percent of all children’s stays were billed to private payors and 47 percent were billed to Medicaid. This is a shift from 2000 when 55 percent of stays were billed to private insurance and only 37 percent were billed to Medicaid.
• On average, costs for children’s hospitalizations were about half as much as all hospitalizations.
Read the AHRQ statistical brief on costs for children’s hospital stays.
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