TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Statewide annual hospital charges for acute care of traffic injuries: Nebraska, 2004
JO  - Annual proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine
A1  - McKay, Mary Pat
SP  - 1
EP  - 11
VL  - 51
IS  - 
N2  - 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).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1540-0360
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -