Table 5. Average hospitalization costs of heart failure by ethnicity in 2007 and 2010.

Factors			2007				2010
			Black	Hispanic	White	Total Sample	Black	Hispanic	White	Total Sample	All Males	All Females
Cols. →			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
# Co-morbid			2.7	2.6	2.9	2.8	3.64	3.79	3.67	3.69	3.58	3.38
Charlson Index			3.9	3.9	3.6	3.7	3.8	3.8	3..5	3.6	3.70a	3.50
# HF adm			1.5	1.4	1.3	1.4	1.6a	1.4	1.3	1.4	1.40a	1.33
Total # re-adm.			3.2	2.9	2.6	2.8	2.8a	2.4	2.2	2.3	2.36a	2.31
HF LOS			7.7a	7.4	7.6	7.6	7.6	7.9a	7.0	7.3	7.31a	7.19
Total LOS			18.4a	17.3	16.8	17.1	15.4a	14.8	13.3	13.9	13.7	14.2
HF Cost Alone $	All Ages	M	83,858a	69,430	70,315	71,995	82,929a	80,981	73,985	76,839	83,341	70,116
		SD	137,304	101,971	114,953	115,866	166,922	141,089	148,332	149,654	178,691	111,572
	Age ≤64	M	87,152	70,970	87,570	82,995	93,929	84,673	96,735	92,580	98,245a	83,063
		SD	160,009	105,589	169,348	152,364	204,144	165,798	245,742	214,650	246,731	145,148
	Age ≥65	M	79,896	68,557	66,003	67,667	71,013	78,996	68,436	70,803	75,302a	66,666
		SD	102,256	998,617	962,161	975,052	112,400	125,782	111,732	114,825	129,329	218,732
Total Cost $	All Ages	M	159,690a	148,860	137,960	143,270	165,393a	158,355	141,980	149,020	156,730a	141,050
		SD	253,579	213,449	206,667	215,507	292,440	245,190	235,834	247,053	271,427	218,732
	Age ≤64	M	166,200	156,580	173,440	167,040	178,982	159,545	181,379a	174,590	176,080	172,080
		SD	272,493	235,533	274,008	264,148	327,600	262,495	340,670	317,016	338,946	276,287
	Age ≥65	M	152,360	144,550	129,380	134,220	150,672	157,716	132,370	139,210	146,680	132,780
		SD	230,220	199,967	185,747	193,046	124,800	235,376	201,019	213,439	100,479	100,826

a. differences by ethnicity and gender significant at P<.001.

# comorbid, number of comorbidities; Charlson Index, Charlson Index of Severity of Comorbid Conditions; # HF Adm., number of heart failure admissions; Total # re-adm., total number of readmissions; HF LOS, length of stay in days associated with heart failure; Total LOS, total days in hospital; HF Cost Alone $, hospital cost for heart failure; Total Cost $, total cost for year for any admission with at least one admission for HF; M, mean; SD, standard deviation.