title: Average hospital charges for asthma treatment vary dramatically by region and state.
abstract: Asthma is one of the most frequent causes of hospitalization among children and adults and it's a costly chronic condition. But treatment costs and utilization vary geographically. Here's the data developed by a group health insurance company, which surveyed total charges for its asthma patients across 50 states and came up with broad variations in costs.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001249:Asthma / Q000191:economics* / Q000628:therapy; D019985:Benchmarking; D002391:Catchment Area, Health / Q000191:economics; D002648:Child; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D017722:Hospital Charges / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007350:Insurance, Hospitalization; D014481:United States