Re-admissions: An Interesting Difference

The issue of re-admissions has been a major concern for increased Health Care costs in hospitals. In a recent study by H-CUP they reported on a cross section.

The above is the summary of Re-admissions for Medicare. No real surprises here. In contrast look at Medicaid below:

They are almost dominated by psychiatric causes. Also for Private Insurance we have:

Again a somewhat similar profile.

This says a great deal about what we expect in the ACA. Two separate segments.