Table 2.

Hospital length of stay and health-care costs of initial hospitalizations

	Cost per daya (US$)	Control group				Treatment group
		Total days	Total cost (US$)	Subjects	Cost per subject (US$)	Total days	Total cost (US$)	Subjects	Cost per subject (US$)
CHF	2232	517	1154,129	78	14,797	454	1,013,490	79	12,829
AMI	4318	98	423,163	25	16,927	138	595,882	30	19,863
Pneumonia	1953	621	1,213,000	100	12,130	669	1,306,759	95	13,755
COPD	1868	634	1,184,345	106	11,173	620	1,158,193	109	10,626
Total		1870	3,974,638	309	12,863	1881	4,074,324	313	13,107

CHF congestive heart failure, AMI acute myocardial infarction, COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

^aCost estimates come from the 2012 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) database [16]

^bDifferences between the control and treatment groups did not achieve statistical significance (p < 0.05)