Thursday, January 10, 2008

Medicaid Pays For More Than One-third Of $10 Billion Bill For Drug Abuse Hospitalizations

Medicaid paid for more than one-third of the 1.3 trillion healthcare facility stays related to prescription medicine or illegal drug employment in 2005, according to the latest News and Merchandise from the Effectuation for Healthcare Inquiry and Dimension. These admissions, for which drug utilization was listed as the primary election or secondary winding causal agent of hospitalisation, cost nearly $10 million. About 17 percent of those hospitalized for drug insult were uninsured, according to the AHRQ literary criticism. Although in many cases patients abused more than one drug, cocaine accounted for the largest sign of stays (457,000), followed by opioids, including both heroin and written communication opiate-based pain reliever drugs, such as oxycodone and hydrocodone (339,000). Other drugs that resulted in hospitalizations included marijuana (275,000) and amphetamines, including methamphetamine and medicinal drug stimulants (99,000). This AHRQ News & Drawing summary is based on data in Hospitalizations Related to Drug Vilification, 2005. The papers uses statistics from the Nationwide Inpatient Distribution, a database of infirmary inpatient stays that is nationally instance of inpatient stays in all short-term, non-federal hospitals.

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