Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) released research on the rate of hospitalizations for diabetes in 2016 in Pennsylvania. The brief highlights recent findings on hospitalizations for diabetes, including the number of admissions for diabetes, admission rates by age, hospital payments, variation in population-based rates including racial and income disparities and county-specific rates. Findings show the number of diabetes hospitalizations increased 13% between 2000 and 2016 and diabetes hospitalizations amounted to an estimated $205 million in hospital payments in 2016.
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