One out of three patients admitted to California hospitals has diabetes, which adds $1.6 billion to health care costs a year, a study released today found. Researchers looked through patient discharge records of those 35 and older as well as hospital financial data from 2011 and found that an average 31 percent — or about 730,000 people — who were hospitalized had diabetes. That translates to $225 million in costs paid out by Medi-Cal, researchers said. Read more here: sbsun/health/20140515/a-third-of-patients-hospitalized-in-california-suffer-from-diabetes-study-finds
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 17:00:00 +0000