{"id":37674,"date":"2021-07-14T23:19:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T06:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37674"},"modified":"2021-07-14T23:19:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T06:19:02","slug":"initial-hospital-costs-for-gun-injuries-tops-1b-per-year-gao-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37674","title":{"rendered":"Initial hospital costs for gun injuries tops $1B per year: GAO report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of initial treatment for gun-related injuries in hospitals exceeds $1 billion per year, with public health coverage accounting for the majority of the bill, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.<\/p>\n<p>The GAO\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/yllcypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtslqlqgf_gcrcrrgygdctytymmmtr.html?a=&amp;b=40699\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/yllcypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtslqlqgf_gcrcrrgygdctytymmmtr.html?a%3D%26b%3D40699&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626410050900000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEVjmt1hk8ZFqpzhahqItACxu1D-w\">report released Wednesday<\/a>\u00a0found hospitals documented about 30,000 inpatient stays and about 50,000 emergency department visits for initial treatment for gun-related injuries per year, according to the most recent hospital data from 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n<p>But the data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality did not include the physician costs, which the office predicted could add about 20 percent to the $1 billion total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of initial treatment for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37675,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37674\/revisions\/37675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}