With some drugs, more is needed just to feel normal. When not taking the drug, users commonly experience depression that leads to compulsive drug use. Long-term substance abuse affects brain functioning, causing memory loss, learning difficulties and impaired judgment. Marijuana causes short-term memory problems.
1 Medicare beneficiaries paid an average of $725 per inpatient stay, [21] compared to $410 for each observation stay (and $528 if drug costs were included in each observation stay). [ 2 22].hort inpatient stays were often for the same reasons as observation stays. [19]. The Medicare program and Medicare beneficiaries pay more for short inpatient stays than for observation stays: 1  The Medicare program paid an average of $5,142 for each short inpatient stay, compared to $1,741 for each observation stay.
aggregate hospital costs in 2010. The cost per stay for 5 principal diagnoses was approximately double the average cost per stay in 2010. ($9,700): septicemia ($18,400), complication of device ($17,600), acute myocardial infarction ($18,200), respiratory failure ($22,300), and intracranial injury ($18,000). Aggregate inflation-adjusted costs for hospital stays grew 3.8 percent annually between 1997 and 2010, with 2.9 percent attributed to an increase in the intensity of services (cost per stay) and 1.0 percent attributed to growth in the population.