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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 24.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Intern Med. 2011 Feb 1;154(3):160–167. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-154-3-201102010-00005

Table 2.

Hospital spending by quintile, 208 California hospitals in 1999–2003 and 2004–2008

Quintile 1999- 2003
2004–2008
AMI CHF Stroke GI bleed Hip fracture Pneumonia
1 $25,658 $5,168 $5,090 $4,555 $4,859 $7,982 $5,556
2 $30,844 $7,107 $7,174 $6,306 $7,627 $12,215 $7,878
3 $36,288 $9,985 $9,097 $7,638 $9,431 $14,739 $9,815
4 $43,228 $13,346 $11,383 $9,388 $12,374 $18,962 $12,437
5 $58,635 $21,072 $18,984 $13,945 $21,762 $28,546 $20,789

Notes: Hospital spending is in 2001 dollars. Spending during 1999–2003 was derived from the most recent Dartmouth Atlas, which does not break down spending by disease. Hospital spending during 2004–2008 was calculated using the terminal hospital stays of patients admitted between 2004 and 2008. Hospital spending levels from 2004–2008 are not directly comparable to 1999–2003 levels because hospital spending in 2004–2008 is computed from the terminal hospital stay of patients, rather than all hospital stays over the final two years of life. Abbreviations: Acute myocardial infarction (AMI), congestive heart failure (CHF), gastrointestinal hemorrhage (GI bleed).