Each hospital stay in 2009 averaged approximately three days in length and incurred an average cost of $18,560. Drug-eluting stents were used in roughly three-fourths of cases and had a one-day shorter average length of stay and lower average cost per hospital stay compared to discharges with a non-drug-eluting stent.
Other notable findings from the statistical brief include the following:
• Males received treatments involving cardiac stents at roughly twice the rate of females.
• Among patients receiving any type of cardiac stent during a hospitalization, the average age was just under 65.
• Medicare was the payor in 51 percent of hospitalizations (329,420 stays) with cardiac stent procedures.
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