Being a newborn baby was the top reason for hospitalizations, while childbirth complications ranked third on the list, the report says.
Alaskans were charged about $5.78 billion for hospital stays in 2023, according to an annual report published by the state Department of Health. Total charges increased from $5.31 billion in 2022 and $4.94 billion in 2021, according to the report. issued this week by the department. The report quantifies total hospital discharges, emergency department discharges, outpatient surgeries and other medical procedures.
Based on those hospitals’ records, there were 60,684 inpatient hospital discharges in 2023, the report said. That number is the total hospital stays rather than individual patients; some patients could have had multiple stays during the year, the report notes. Heart failure was the fourth-leading cause of hospitalizations, and alcohol-related disorders ranked fifth, according to the report.
For all hospital stays, the most common payer was Medicaid, which covered 31.4% of hospitalizations, followed by Medicare, which covered 30.6%, the report said.
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