Primary payer status, individual patient characteristics, and hospital‐level factors affecting length of stay and total cost of hospitalization in total laryngectomy

Medicaid and uninsured patients anecdotally incur higher cost and length of stay because of nonmedical, discharge-related factors. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between primary payer and length of stay and cost, controlling for comorbidities and complications, in patients undergoing total laryngectomy.The sample included 4128 patients who underwent total laryngectomy in the 2005 to 2010 National Inpatient Sample...