From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2007 data on the aggregate “national cost” for “mood disorders” for just for those hospitalized.
Doesn’t it behoove us to understand this organic precedents to this condition a little more?
2007 Outcomes by patient and hospital characteristics for
CCS principal diagnosis category
657 Mood disorders
| Total number of discharges | Aggregate charges, $ (the “national bill”) | Standard errors | |||
| Total number of discharges | Aggregate charges, $ (the “national bill”) | ||||
| All discharges | 774,256 (100.00%) | 11,176,511,980 | 44,031 | 777,014,003 | |
| Payer | Medicare | 189,393 (24.46%) | 3,563,767,979 | 10,926 | 257,211,915 |
| Medicaid | 193,204 (24.95%) | 2,785,761,396 | 14,596 | 262,385,502 | |
| Private insurance | 245,647 (31.73%) | 2,918,952,969 | 16,530 | 230,781,291 | |
| Uninsured | 94,269 (12.18%) | 1,349,369,808 | 9,465 | 257,851,754 | |
| Other | 48,745 (6.30%) | 530,852,387 | 6,311 | 68,494,108 | |
| Missing | 2,997 (0.39%) | 27,807,443 | 883 | 9,143,263 | |
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