Figure 4 - Relative trends in numbers of public patient separations by insurance status. The source is the AHS data for all hospitals for 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09. The X-axis shows month and year, starting at June 2007 and ending at June 2009. The Y-axis is named 2006-07 year = 100.
There are two lines of data, one for patients who are not insured and one for patients who are insured. “Surcharge changes” is marked on each line at October 2008. The number of public patient separations for patients not insured has remained relatively stable increasing from 100 in July 2007 to approximately 105 in March 2009 and then remaining steady to June 2009. There has been a steady increase in the number of public patient separations for insured patients from 100 in June 2008 to approximately 107 in June 2009.