PS1-22: Premature Birth, Initial Hospital Length of Stay, and Costs

Background: Preterm birth disparities with their associated geographic, socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity factors are among the most widely recognized and least understood phenomena in the study of reproductive health. Previous studies have focused on total cost; few studies have disaggregated total charges into their components for both the preterm infants and their mothers or compared such costs to full-term births