Do unemployment and payor category impact length of stay and hospital charges of spine fusion patients?

Autor:	Mohammad Sami Walid, Aaron C M Barth, Joe Sam Robinson, Nadezhda Zaytseva
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Univariate analysis business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Spine fusion Spine surgery Cohort Health care Unemployment medicine business Socioeconomic status Clinical record media_common
Zdroj:	Health. :150-154
ISSN:	1949-5005 1949-4998
DOI:	10.4236/health.2012.43023
Popis:	Introduction: In this paper we investigate the possible connection between socioeconomic status as demarcated by employment and in-surance status and consumption of healthcare resources in spine surgery patients. Methods: The clinical records of 1599 spine surgery pa-tients counted from 2008-2009 were reviewed. The largest groups of patients belonged to MS-DRG 460 (N = 585) and to MS-DRG 473 (N = 700). These two MS-DRG patient groups were used as the study cohort representing patients who, by definition, did not have serious comor-bidities or complications. Results: Unemployed non-cervical patients tended to stay on average 1.8 days longer in hospital and had on average $5800 higher hospital charges. No major differ-ences were noted in length of stay and hospital cost between government and private insurance patients. However, self-pay non-cervical fusion patients had notable increases in length of stay and hospital cost, especially in the >39 and
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