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Effects Of Childhood Obesity On Hospital Care And Costs, 1999-2005
Health Affairs, 07/27/09

Trasande L et al. – The authors detected a near–doubling in hospitalizations with a diagnosis of obesity between 1999 and 2005 and an increase in costs from $125.9 million to 237.6 million (in 2005 dollars) between 2001 and 2005. Medicaid appears to bear a large burden of hospitalizations for conditions that occur along with obesity, while private payers pay a greater portion of hospitalization costs to treat obesity itself.

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