Inpatient Costs of Treating Patients With COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

With more than 6.2 million hospitalizations due to COVID-19 in the US, recognition of the average hospital costs to provide inpatient care during the pandemic is necessary to understanding the national medical resource use and improving public health readiness and related policies.

Objective

To examine the mean cost to provide inpatient care to treat COVID-19 and how it varied through the pandemic waves and by important sociodemographic patient characteristics.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used inpatient-level data from March 1, 2020, to March 31, 2022, extracted from a repository of clinical, administrative, and financial information covering 97% of academic medical centers across the US.

Main outcomes and measures

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SUBMITTER: Kapinos KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10765267 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature