Assessment of Underpayment for Inpatient Care at Children's Hospitals

Paige VonAchen; Dipika Gaur; Walter Wickremasinghe; Matt Hall; Denise M Goodman; Rishi Agrawal; Jay G Berry

doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.1133

Assessment of Underpayment for Inpatient Care at Children's Hospitals

JAMA Pediatr. 2021 Sep 1;175(9):972-974. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.1133.

Authors

Paige VonAchen¹, Dipika Gaur², Walter Wickremasinghe¹, Matt Hall³, Denise M Goodman⁴, Rishi Agrawal⁴, Jay G Berry¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.
³ Children's Hospital Association, Lenexa, Kansas.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study compares cost and payer reimbursement for hospital admissions of children and assesses associations of underpayment by patients’ demographic and clinical characteristics.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Child
Child, Preschool
Critical Care / economics*
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Health Care Costs*
Hospitalization / economics*
Hospitals, Pediatric / economics*
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Insurance, Health, Reimbursement / economics*
Male
Retrospective Studies
United States