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Figure 26. Expected Payer for Neonatal Hospital Stays

Figure 26: Expected Payer for Neonatal Hospital Stays (Text Description)
| Expected Payer |
Newborns without a Complicating Diagnosis |
Newborns with a Complicating Diagnosis |
Readmitted Neonates* |
| Private |
57.7% |
52.6% |
45.9% |
| Medicaid |
34.4% |
39.5% |
47.3% |
| Other Insurance |
2.6% |
2.9% |
2.7% |
| Uninsured |
5.0% |
4.7% |
3.6% |
| Missing |
0.3% |
0.3% |
0.5% |
* Readmitted neonates are babies 30 days or younger without a diagnosis for being born during that hospital stay, thus are likely to have been readmitted to the hospital.
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