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Top 10 Uninsured Principal Diagnoses in U.S. Hospitals

Principal Diagnoses	Number of Discharges in Thousands)	Percent of All Hospital Stays for Condition that Are Uninsured
1. Infants born in the hospital	191	5.0
2. Pneumonia	51	4.0
3. Alcohol-related mental disorders	47	19.3
4. Depression (affective disorders)	45	7.6
5. Substance-related mental disorders	43	22.5
6. Hardening of the arteries of the heart (coronary atherosclerosis)	41	2.8
7. Nonspecific chest pain	40	7.3
8. Asthma	34	7.9
9. Diabetes mellitus with complications	31	7.5
10. Trauma to perineum due to childbirth	30	4.1

Source: Hospitalization in the United States, 1997 (HCUP Fact Book No. 1), AHRQ Publication No. 00-0031, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2000.

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