Costs for Hospital Stays in the United States, 2010

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This Statistical Brief presents data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) on costs of hospital stays in the United States in 2010. Both aggregate hospital costs and the average costs per hospital stay are presented, by age and primary payer. The most costly inpatient conditions are identified, and the cost difference and components of growth in hospital costs are provided for these conditions between 1997 and 2010. All differences between estimates noted in the text are statistically significant at the .001 level or better.