Overall, total hospital costs for potentially preventable hospital admissions reduced by a little over 2 percent from $32.5 billion in 2005 to $31.8 billion in 2010.
Changes in the rates of potentially preventable hospital admissions and their associated total hospital costs from 2005 to 2010, according to the brief, are:
• Diabetes — 11.9 percent increase from $5.7 billion in 2005 to $6.4 billion in 2010
• Circulatory diseases — 6.9 percent decrease from $9.1 billion in 2005 to $8.5 billion in 2010
• Chronic respiratory diseases — 11.4 percent increase from $5.4 billion in 2005 to $6.1 billion in 2010
• Acute conditions — 11.1 percent decrease from $12.1 billion in 2005 to $10.8 billion in 2010
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