Here are four statistics from the Wisconsin Health Care Data Report.
1. The average hospital stay in 2015 was around 4.4 days, a 2.2 percent decrease from the previous year.
2. Patients were charged an average $32,055 per hospitalization in 2015, up about 5 percent from $30,486 in 2014.
3. The number of hospitalizations in Wisconsin rose 0.4 percent in 2015, and the number of patient days decreased by 0.1 percent.
4. There was a 4.7 percent increase in reported emergency department visits, from 1.71 million in 2014 to 1.79 million last year.
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