Data reaffirms Iowa hospitals among most cost efficient in nation

The following is from Scott McIntyre, Director of Communications for the Iowa Hospital Association:

New data from the federal government has reaffirmed that Iowa's hospitals are among the most cost efficient in the nation.  The new Medicare figures show wide variance among hospitals around the country, even within the same city.  In Los Angeles, for example, the average patient admitted to Temple Community Hospital cost Medicare $24,104 during the stay and in the month afterward, 34 percent above the national median.  Meanwhile, about a mile and a half away at Saint Vincent Medical Center, the cost was $17,628, or 5 percent below the median.

Every Iowa hospital included in the data came in below the national median and the level of variance was not nearly as wide in Iowa, where the average Medicare cost ranged from 16 percent to 2 percent below the national median.  Iowa hospitals, on average, cost Medicare $16,427, or about 9 percent below median.  This ranked Iowa as the 9

^th

most efficient state in the nation.

See more of the report here.

These have more state data and hospital data.