Abstract:Objective:To analyze the hospitalization expenses and its influencing factors of chronic patients and provide the basis for controlling the hospitalization expenses. Methods:We collected the medical data of hospitalization patients of chronic patients from a general hospital in Anhui Province in 2014, SPSS 18.0 was used to describe the hospitalization expenses and analyze the influencing factors. Results:The average hospitalization expenses, drug expenses, inspection expenses and laboratory expenses of chronic patients were 8207.5 yuan, 3442.5 yuan, 1275.0 yuan and 1057.5 yuan respectively. For hypertension, diabetes and intervertebral disk disease, the average hospitalization expenses were 5929.2 yuan, 10384.1 yuan and 8900.2 yuan; the proportion of drug expenses to hospitalization expenses were 33.9%, 47.4% and 34.9%. There was a positive correlation between hospitalization days and hospitalization expenses. Age, hospitalization days and type of disease were factors of hospitalization expenses. Conclusion:The hospitalization expenses of chronic patients was high and the economic burden was heavy. The hospitalization expenses and proportion of drug expenses of diabetics were highest. The hospitalization days of intervertebral disk disease patients was longest. The elderly were high risk groups for chronic diseases.