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21 Noteworthy Statistics on Healthcare
T
he following list is comprised of sta-
tistics representing different aspects of
the healthcare industry, including facts
about hospitals, costs, utilization, physicians,
insurance, emergency department visits and
EHRs.
e statistics were gathered from various
sources.
Hospitals
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation State Health
Facts
1. As of 2014, the total number of hospitals in
the U.S. is 4,926.
2. More than 58 percent of all U.S. hospitals
are nonprofit.
3. About 20 percent of all U.S. hospitals are
owned by state or local governments.
4. For-profit hospitals represent 21.4 percent
of all U.S. hospitals.
Hospital costs
Sources: Kaiser Family Foundation State
Health Facts and the National Expenditure
Accounts
5. U.S. hospitals see an average of $2,212
adjusted expenses per inpatient day.
6. Hospitals in Oregon see the highest costs
per inpatient day at $3,344.
7. South Dakota hospitals see the lowest costs
per inpatient day at $1,294.
8. Total U.S. healthcare spending reached
nearly $3 trillion in 2014.
Hospital utilization
Sources: National Hospital Discharge Sur-
vey and Summary Health Statistics: National
Health Interview Survey, 2014
9. e average length of stay for inpatient care
is 4.8 days.
10. Roughly 7 percent of patients stay over-
night at the hospital.
Physicians
Sources: Kaiser Family Foundation State
Health Facts, Merritt Hawkins' "2015 Review
of Physician and Advanced Practitioner
Recruiting Incentives" report and the National
Rural Health Association
11. As of April, a total of 908,508 profession-
ally active physicians operated in the U.S.
12. Nearly 48 percent of professionally active
physicians practice primary care.
13. About 52 percent of professionally active
physicians are specialists.
14. Family medicine is the most sought-aer
physician specialty in hospital recruitment,
followed by psychiatry.
15. About 10 percent of U.S. physicians work
in rural areas, serving one-fourth of the U.S.
population.
Insurance
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation State Health
Facts
16. Forty-nine percent of the U.S. population
is insured under employers.
17. Another 32 percent are insured under
Medicaid and Medicare.
18. Medicaid costs totaled nearly $500 billion
in 2014.
Emergency department visits
Sources: National Hospital Ambulatory Med-
ical Care Survey and a Healthcare Cost and
Utilization Project report
19. In 2011, a total of 136.3 million people
visited the ED.
20. e No. 1 reason adults ages 45 to 84 are
admitted to a hospital aer an ED visit is
septicemia.
EHRs
Source: Office-based Physician Electronic
Health Record Adoption: 2004-2014
21. Eighty-three percent of office-based physi-
cians use EHRs. n
15 Largest Health Systems in the US
By Ayla Ellison
F
or-profit hospital systems top the list of the largest
systems in the U.S., based on number of staffed acute
care beds, according to a MergerWatch report.
Here are the 15 largest health systems in the U.S., according
to the report.
1. Hospital Corporation of America (Nashville, Tenn.):
35,245 total staffed beds
2. Community Health Systems (Franklin, Tenn.): 23,982
3. Tenet Healthcare (Dallas): 17,605
4. Ascension Health (St. Louis): 16,825
5. Catholic Health Initiatives (Denver): 14,555
6. Trinity Health (Livonia, Mich.): 13,506
7. Kaiser Permanente Health Foundation (Oakland,
Calif.): 8,566
8. LifePoint Health (Brentwood, Tenn.): 7,365
9. Dignity Health (San Francisco): 7,311
10. NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System
(New York City): 5,932
11. Prime Healthcare Services (Ontario, Calif.): 5,742
12. Adventist Health System (Winter Park, Fla.): 5,553
13. Providence Health & Services (Seattle): 5,385
14. Universal Health Services (King of Prussia, Pa.):
5,344
15. Banner Health (Phoenix): 4,949 n
