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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Care. 2015 Jun;53(6):492–500. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000359

Figure 2. Trends in length of stay and discharges to post-acute care and home, stratified by payor source.

Figure 2

Trends in the percentage of patients discharged home or to post-acute care facilities (PAC) are shown using loess smoothing (data points are represented as filled circles, unfilled circles, and unfilled triangles, respectively). Trends are calculated as a relative percent change compared to 1996 levels. Length of stay is reported as mean number of days. For those discharged to PAC, among Medicare patients slope is 4.69 (95% CI 3.69– 5.69; p-value <0.001), among Medicare patients slope is 2.85 (2.05–3.65; p-value <0.001), and among patients with private insurance slope is 3.617 (1.99–5.24; p-value 0.001).