Hospitalizations for gastroparesis have risen more than 40-fold since the early 1990s, according to a new study that found such cases accounted for more than $600 million in health care spending in 2014.
The database analysis, by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, examined hospitalizations and visits to the emergency department over time (Figures 1 and 2). The number of hospitalizations increased from roughly 900 in 1994 to 16,400 in 2014, with median charges climbing from