Pre-Existing Diabetes

More than a quarter million women who gave birth in U.S. hospitals in 2008 had pre-existing diabetes or developed it during their pregnancy - a condition called gestational diabetes.

Hospital costs associated with deliveries by women with pre-existing diabetes were 55 percent higher ($6,000) and for women with gestational diabetes they were 18 percent more expensive ($4,500) than for women who didn’t have diabetes ($3,800).

[Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, HCUP, Statistical Brief #102, Hospitalizations Related to Diabetes in Pregnancy, 2008.]