FAIR Health Releases COVID-19 Cost Tracker Brief

In a new brief released by FAIR Health, 2020-2021 private healthcare claims data was analyzed to deliver state by state COVID-19 costs. Leading the chart in cost per hospitalization was New Jersey with an average of nearly $129 thousand, which dwarfed that of Maryland, the lowest state on the list with an average cost of nearly $50 thousand. The brief is a descriptive analysis of data from Fair Health’s free online COVID-19 Cost Tracker.

According to Fair Health, “Complex hospitalizations for COVID-19 are those that require ventilation and/or admission to the intensive care unit (ICU), while noncomplex hospitalizations do not. The state with the highest average allowed amount for noncomplex hospitalizations for COVID-19 was Alaska ($44,239), and the state with the highest average allowed amount for outpatient treatment for COVID-19 was Nevada ($1,538). Maryland was the state with the lowest average allowed amounts for noncomplex hospitalizations ($12,531) and outpatient treatment ($580) for COVID-19, as well as for complex hospitalizations.”

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(Source: FAIR Health, January 20^th, 2022)