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Published in final edited form as: Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2015 Jun 10;103(9):814–820. doi: 10.1002/bdra.23379

TABLE 1.

Total Costs of Hospitalizations with and without a Congenital Heart Defect Diagnosis, by Age at Admission, Arkansas State Inpatient Database, 2006 to 2011^a

	Hospitalizations including a congenital heart defect diagnosis			Hospitalizations not including a congenital heart defect diagnosis
	N	%	Total cost (U.S. $)^b	N	%	Total cost (U.S. $)^b
All hospitalizations	9071		355,543,696	2,233,413		18,812,776,487
Age (years)
<1	4214	46.5	254,253,464	102,112	4.6	780,125,059
1-3	469	5.2	18,158,956	24,905	1.1	155,520,983
4-17	475	5.2	20,019,861	98,248	4.4	774,284,139
18-45	1161	12.8	16,467,877	584,937	26.2	3,424,832,597
46-64	1200	13.2	21,169,246	528,099	23.7	5,242,707,765
≥65	1552	17.1	25,474,292	895,112	40.1	8,435,305,944
Patients < 18 years of age	5158	56.9	292,432,282	225,265	10.1	1,709,930,181
Patients ≥ 18 years of age	3913	43.1	63,111,415	2,008,148	89.9	17,102,846,306

Excludes hospitalizations missing age, hospital charges, and hospitalizations of out of state residents and normal newborn births

Costs have been adjusted to 2012 dollars using the Purchaser Price Index for Hospitals