Creator:

Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

Geography:

North America > Canada

Categories:

• Health Economics/Healthcare Costs

Tags:

• health care costs
• hospital care
• hospital care expenditures

Date:

2008

URL:

http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/products/2008hospcosts_report_e.pdf

Annotation:

This report provides information about average acute care hospitalization costs for typical patientsi for several conditions and/or procedures using a newly redeveloped case mix grouping methodology known as CMG+. Using this tool and CIHI data, we are able to determine why hospitalization costs can vary. Sometimes it can depend on the type of disease or condition being treated and how many interventions are used during a patient's hospital stay. In other cases, the differences may be due to how and where a patient is treated, the type of patient (that is, age, number of illnesses) and the length of hospital stay.