TABLE 2.

Estimated Financial Impact for an Average US Hospital Accommodating a 90-Day Demand Surge Due to COVID-19, by Rate of Elective Admissions

	Hospital Rate of Elective Admission
Outcome	15%	20%	25%	30%
Financial impact	−$1,256,574	−$1,916,278	−$2,575,981	−$3,235,685

Analysis based on a hospital admission rate of 207/100,000 among those age 20–60 and 379/100,000 among those age 60+, unoccupied bed capacity of 20%, and absenteeism set at 0%. Because demand did not reach capacity, these results were not sensitive to varying rates of absenteeism or unoccupied capacity.

Source: Author’s results from simulation analysis.