A statistical brief released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shows cardiac stent implantation in 2009 accounted for 644,240 hospital stays, amounting to nearly $12 billion nationally.
Each hospital stay in 2009 averaged approximately three days in length and incurred an average cost of $18,560. Drug-eluting stents were used in roughly three-fourths of cases and had a one-day shorter average length of stay and lower average cost per hospital stay compared to discharges with a non-drug-eluting stent.
Other notable findings from the statistical brief include the following:
• Males received treatments involving cardiac stents at roughly twice the rate of females.
• Among patients receiving any type of cardiac stent during a hospitalization, the average age was just under 65.
• Medicare was the payor in 51 percent of hospitalizations (329,420 stays) with cardiac stent procedures.
Each hospital stay in 2009 averaged approximately three days in length and incurred an average cost of $18,560. Drug-eluting stents were used in roughly three-fourths of cases and had a one-day shorter average length of stay and lower average cost per hospital stay compared to discharges with a non-drug-eluting stent.
Other notable findings from the statistical brief include the following:
• Males received treatments involving cardiac stents at roughly twice the rate of females.
• Among patients receiving any type of cardiac stent during a hospitalization, the average age was just under 65.
• Medicare was the payor in 51 percent of hospitalizations (329,420 stays) with cardiac stent procedures.
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