Table 4.
Median Hospital Charges Among Singleton Births for Presence or Absence of Chronic Conditions, Overall and by Delivery Type, HHIC*, 2003–2008
| Median Charge | Median Charge (Cesarean) | Median Charge (Vaginal) | |
| Asthma | $9,988.00 | $14,926.00 | $9,025.00 |
| no Asthma | $8,918.00 | $12,926.00 | $7,997.00 |
| P-value ** | < .001 | < .001 | < .001 |
| Diabetes | $10,701.00 | $13,807.00 | $9,002.00 |
| no Diabetes | $8,848.00 | $12,908.50 | $7,984.00 |
| P-value | < .001 | < .001 | < .001 |
| High Blood Pressure | $11,785.00 | $16,240.00 | $9,971.50 |
| no High Blood Pressure | $8,775.00 | $12,764.00 | $7,928.00 |
| P-value | < .001 | < .001 | < .001 |
| Overall | $8,968.00 | $13,000.00 | $8,041.00 |
*
Note: HHIC represents data from the Hawai‘i Health Information Corporation. Charges not available for births occurring at military facilities (n= 15,440 births) and for 5 births with Quest and 13 with Private Insurance. There were 1,367 births with military insurance had charges—occurred at non-military facilities.
**
P-value denotes difference by a two-sided Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test among those with the conditions vs not having the condition.