Condition Hospital Costs
condition_hospital_costsRead-onlyIdempotent
National U.S. inpatient hospital discharges and aggregate costs by principal diagnosis (CCSR category) and year, from AHRQ HCUP's published "Most Expensive Conditions by Payer" Statistical Brief series — e.g. heart failure, septicemia/sepsis, acute myocardial infarction, COVID-19, stroke (cerebral infarction). Returns the top-20 most expensive conditions nationally (or filtered to one condition) with discharge counts, aggregate cost, and mean cost per stay. Years available: 2022, 2017 (AHRQ has not published a 2021 edition of this cross-condition table as of 2026-10-21). Optionally filter by expected payer (Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, self-pay) for 2022.
Example tool call
This call uses example arguments supplied in the tool’s input schema.
{
"id": 1,
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"arguments": {
"year": 2022,
"condition": "heart failure"
},
"name": "condition_hospital_costs"
}
}Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| year | No | Statistical Brief edition year. One of: 2022, 2017. Defaults to 2022 (the most recent AHRQ has published). | |
| payer | No | Expected payer to filter by. Only 2022 has per-payer tables; other years return the all-payer table regardless of this argument. | |
| condition | No | Condition name (e.g. "heart failure", "sepsis", "stroke") or CCSR code (e.g. "CIR019") to filter to. Omit to get the full top-20 table for that year/payer. |