High-cost users still came to hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic during first wave data in Thailand: secondary data analysis.

BMC Public Health · 2024 · PMC11494780 · PMID 39438837

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The average cost of ACUs increased from ~ 16,000 THB (2016 to 2019) to ~ 19,000 THB in 2020 and ~ 32,000 THB in 2021. Thailand experienced an increasing trend in hospitalization expenditures, especially the rapid increase during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 (Fig. 1 A).

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