Citation

McKay MP. Annu. Proc. Assoc. Adv. Automot. Med. 2007; 51: 1-11.

Affiliation

Department of Emergency Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

18184481

PMCID

PMC3217512

Abstract

Case-based hospital billing data from the Health Care Utilization Partnership was used to calculate annual statewide hospital charges for the acute care of traffic injuries in Nebraska. E-codes 810.0 through 819.9 identified traffic injury cases. Admissions and emergency department (ED)-only visits for traffic injuries accrued significantly higher charges than other types of care. Statewide, hospital charges for the acute care of traffic injury totaled more than U.S.$63.8 million in 2004. Of this, 23.2% was charged to public payers (Medicare or Medicaid) and 5.5% was charged to self-pay (generally accepted as bad debt absorbed by the hospital system).

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