The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) has posted a new statistical brief on the following: Characteristics of Emergency Department Visits for Super-Utilizers by Payer, 2014. Emergency department (ED) super-utilizers were defined as those patients with the highest number of ED visits in 2014, by payer: four or more visits for privately insured patients aged 1–64 years or Medicare patients aged 65 years and older; six or more visits for Medicaid or Medicare patients aged 1–64 years. In 2014, although super-utilizers constituted a relatively small proportion of all patients seen in the ED (2.6 to 6.1 percent, depending on the payer-age group), they accounted for a large share of all ED visits (10.5 to 26.2 percent).
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