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).he 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).