What is mild renal cortical thinning? I had a renal ultrasound done in an effort to find the reason for recurrent UTI's , (6 of them since 01/15) ... what is bilateral renal cortical thinning with bilateral renal cysts ... I have small stones in borth kidney and mild cortical thinning, does this mean renal failure/ ... I have had cortical thinning for the past 2 years consistently progressing.i have a high T2 signal ... cortical thinning left kidney . i'd like to know your opinion ...
1 The incremental costs incurred by patients on their last full day of hospital stay were $420 per day on average, or just 2.4 percent of the $17,734 average total cost.2  End-of-stay costs represented only a slightly higher percentage of total costs when the length of stay was as short as four days. The remaining 58 percent was hospital overhead. 2  The first day of admission cost $1,246 on average, while the cost of discharging a patient averaged $304. 3  Approximately 40 percent of the costs were incurred during the first 3 days.
â  In 2012, there were about 36.5 million hospital stays with an average length of stay of 4.5 days and an average cost of $10,400 per stay. In 2012, there were approximately 36.5 million hospital stays in the United States, representing a hospitalization rate of 116.2 stays per 1,000 population. The rate of hospitalization decreased by an average of 0.3 percent per year from 2003 to 2008 and by an average of 1.9 percent per year from 2008 to 2012. Between 2003 and 2012, average inflation-adjusted hospital costs increased by 1.8 percent per year.