Figure 26: Expected Payer for Neonatal Hospital Stays (Text Description)

Percent of Hospital Stays by Payer
Expected Payer Newborns without a Complicating Diagnosis Newborns with a Complicating Diagnosis Readmitted Neonates*
Private 57.7% 52.6% 45.9%
Medicaid 34.4% 39.5% 47.3%
Other Insurance 2.6% 2.9% 2.7%
Uninsured 5.0% 4.7% 3.6%
Missing 0.3% 0.3% 0.5%

* Readmitted neonates are babies 30 days or younger without a diagnosis for being born during that hospital stay, thus are likely to have been readmitted to the hospital.

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