TABLE 3.

Weighed Estimated Number, Mean Cost, and Total Cost of Critical Congenital Heart Defects, 2009 Kids’ Inpatient Database

	Na	95% CIb	% of all CHDsc	Mean Cost (U.S. $)	95% CIb Mean Cost	Total Cost (Million U.S. $)	95% CIb Total Cost (Million U.S. $)
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome	5,175	4,211–6,139	3.2	64,368	57,941–70,796	333.1	252.0–414.2
Coarctation of the aorta	5,684	4,848–6,520	3.5	55,645	51,355–59,936	316.3	255.8–376.8
Tetralogy of Fallot	6,415	5,519–7,311	3.9	43,490	39,625–47,356	279.0	227.1–330.9
Double outlet right ventricle	3,380	2,748–4,013	2.1	60,022	55,553–64,490	202.9	161.1–244.7
Transposition of the great arteries	2,444	2,036–2,852	1.5	65,133	58,523–71,742	159.2	124.7–193.7
Single ventricle	1,904	1,513–2,296	1.2	60,557	53,353–67,760	115.3	85.8–144.8
Pulmonary atresia	1,739	1,417–2,061	1.1	59,124	53,030–65,218	102.8	78.8–126.8
Interruption/hypoplasia of the aortic arch	1,375	1,150–1,599	0.8	69,415	60,957–77,872	95.4	72.9–117.9
Tricuspid atresia	1,899	1,566–2,233	1.2	49,337	44,315–54,359	93.7	72.0–115.4
Total anomalous pulmonary venous return	1,198	954–1,442	0.7	73,033	65,783–80,282	87.5	66.5–108.5
Truncus arteriosus	899	741–1,057	0.5	64,394	55,878–72,909	57.9	44.2–71.6
Ebstein anomaly	1,093	910–1,276	0.7	42,565	36,259–48,870	46.5	35.7–57.3
All critical CHD	28,320	24,105–32,534	17.3	52,899	48,997–56,801	1,498.1	1,209.4–1,786.7
All CHD (including critical CHD)	163,980	150,664–177,295		34,246	32,419–36,073	5,615.6	4,960.9–6,270.3

^aHospitalizations with critical congenital heart defects could be counted in more than one category if more than one critical congenital heart defect was present on the discharge summary.

^b95% confidence interval.

^cCongenital heart defects.