Year | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
|---|
Number of participants | 78 | 91 | 114 | 130 | 194 |
Type of admission |
Clinical | 39.7% | 29.7% | 36.0% | 32.3% | 33.0% |
Inpatient | 59.0% | 62.6% | 61.4% | 65.4% | 64.4%b |
Observation | 1.3% | 7.7% | 2.6% | 2.3% | 2.6% |
Type of insurance |
Publica | 90.5%c | 91.2% | 92.1% | 93.1% | 90.7% |
Private | 3.2% | 5.5% | 7.0% | 7.0% | 7.7% |
Self-pay | 6.3% | 3.3% | 1.0% | 0% | 1.5% |
- Clinical and Outpatient status – not formally admitted to the hospital, anticipated stay less than 48 h at provider’s discretion
- Inpatient status – formally admitted to the hospital, anticipated stay greater than 2 midnights at provider’s discretion (CMS 2018)
- a No statistically significant change in the use of public health insurance occurred as determined by the Cochran-Armitage chi-square test (χ2 = 0.002, df = 1, p = 0.96)
- b A single patient whose type of admission was listed as Surgical Day Care has been added to the Inpatient group
- c The type of insurance was not reported for 15 participants in 2013 and the percentages for this year were found only for the other 63 participants
