• Overall utilization remained almost constant in this comparison...
• Medicare Average Length of stay ticks up by 1.43%
• Medicaid Average Length of stay increased from 4.38 to 4.49
• Inpatient Surgeries fell 4.56%
• Emergency Department Visits dropped by 1.07%
• Total Outpatient Visits increased by less than 1%
• Collected Charges as a % of Total Patient Charges went from 38.21% to 36.78%, a 3.74% decline
• Days in Accounts Receivable Gross across all payers declined in this period - in 2012, 46 days and in this time period for 2013, 45 days
• Medicaid had the largest drop in days from 43 in 2012 down to 39 in 2013, decrease of 9.30%

*Represents data from 632 reporting hospitals

• Acute Care Average Length of Stay (ALOS):
  • Medicare 4.81 in 2012 and 4.84 in 2011, a decline of .62%
  • Medicaid ticked up by 3.26%, from 4.30 in 2011 to 4.44 in 2012.
  • Self Pay remained the same at 3.92 between the two years
• Across reporting hospitals, Emergency Department Visits accounted for 15.73% of all Outpatient Visits in 2012
• Inpatient Surgeries decreased from 29.87% to 29.30% and Outpatient Surgeries increased slightly by less than a percent
• Births and Newborn Patient Days both dropped by less than a percent, holding steady between the two years
• Payroll and Benefits for both the facility and the employed physicians increased 4.13% from $50,361,693,062 to $52,441,610,330
• Overall expenses climbed by almost 6% from 2011 to 2012

*Represents data from 659 reporting hospitals