MedPAC said those figures continue to back up the notion that America is overbedded and that “inpatient capacity is expected to remain in excess in most markets even after accounting for increases in demand expected from the 2014 expansion of Medicaid and the introduction of the new mandate to purchase insurance.”
Here are eight statistics on hospital bed capacity, based on MedPAC’s report.
|
Capacity statistic |
2006 |
2012 |
|
National average hospital bed occupancy rate |
64% |
61% |
|
Number of available beds (per 1,000 people) |
2.8 |
2.6 |
|
Occupancy rate for urban hospitals |
67% |
64% |
|
Occupancy rate for rural hospitals |
48% |
43% |
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