
Mean length of hospital stay in U.S. super-utilizers and other patients by payer 2012
This statistic displays the average length of hospital stays among super-utilizers and other patients in the United States in 2012, by payer. During this time, Medicare super-utilizers between the ages of 1 and 64 years had an average of hospital stay of 6.3 days. A relatively large proportion of the United States' health care resources are consumed by a small percentage of the population, where about a quarter of the country's health expenses are incurred by one percent of the population.