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Study Contends LOS has Little Impact on Hospital Admission Cost
Posted on: 2/16/2010
A study performed at the University of Michigan Medical Center in 2000 provides an argument against the idea that reducing length of stays yields large cost savings. The study, which examined accounting records for 12,365 patients at the University of Michigan medical center, was based on actual cost data for patients who survived after hospital stays of four days.
Overall, researchers found that cost savings were minimal. The incremental costs incurred by patients on their last full day of hospital stay were $420 per day on average, or just 2.4% of the $17,734 mean total cost of stay for all 12,365 patients.
To learn more about the study, read this summary from the article that appeared in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
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