Hospital and Surgery Costs. Total health care spending in America was approximately $2.7 trillion in 2011. A little over 31 percent of that amount, or $814 billion, was spent on hospital services. Hospital costs averaged $3,949 per day, and costs per stay averaged $15,734. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the total number of inpatient surgeries performed in 2009 was 48 million.
A FICO score is a credit score, which in short is a score providing a grade on your overall credit worthiness. A true, legitimate FICO score can be purchased from Fair Issac Corporation at myFICO.com or with the Equifax Score Watch monthly plan.
DEFINITION of 'Credit Score'. A statistically derived numeric expression of a person's creditworthiness that is used by lenders to access the likelihood that a person will repay his or her debts.A credit score is based on, among other things, a person's past credit history. FICO score is the most widely used credit scoring system. FICO is an acronym for Fair Isaac Corporation, the company that provides the credit score model to financial institutions. There are other providers of credit scoring systems as well.