Table 1.
Number of all discharges, aggregate cost ($), percent of male (%), mean age, age distribution, payer type, bed size
| Diagnosis (2005) | HC | SBP | EV | TIPS | ||||
| All discharges | 47268 | 821 | 3942 | 4079 | ||||
| Male (%) | 61.4 | 66.7 | 67.7 | 66.5 | ||||
| Age, mean | 57.9 | 54.2 | 56.6 | 55.2 | ||||
| Age | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % |
| 18-44 | 4648 | 9.8 | 136 | 16.6 | 566 | 14.4 | 479 | 11.8 |
| 45-64 | 29350 | 62.1 | 471 | 57.4 | 2196 | 55.7 | 2600 | 63.7 |
| 65-84 | 12623 | 26.7 | 189 | 23.0 | 996 | 25.3 | 888 | 21.8 |
| 85+ | 622 | 1.3 | N/A | N/A | 122 | 3.1 | N/A | N/A |
| Payer | ||||||||
| Medicare | 20002 | 42.3 | 338 | 41.2 | 1298 | 32.9 | 1243 | 30.5 |
| Medicaid | 11819 | 25.0 | 181 | 22.1 | 639 | 16.2 | 870 | 21.3 |
| Private insurance | 10833 | 22.9 | 193 | 23.5 | 1271 | 32.2 | 1555 | 38.1 |
| Uninsured | 2785 | 5.9 | 65 | 7.9 | 537 | 13.6 | 237 | 5.8 |
| Other | 1782 | 3.8 | N/A | N/A | 192 | 4.9 | 174 | 4.3 |
| Missing | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Bed sizes | ||||||||
| Small | 4869 | 10.3 | 111 | 13.5 | 520 | 13.2 | 55 | 1.3 |
| Medium | 12046 | 25.5 | 167 | 20.4 | 1017 | 25.8 | 861 | 21.1 |
| Large | 30354 | 64.2 | 543 | 66.1 | 2405 | 61.0 | 3163 | 77.5 |
n: Number; N/A: Not available; HC: Hepatic coma; SBP: Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis; EV: Esophageal varices; TIPS: Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt.