This study was performed to find out characteristics of daily average medical charge of the inpatients of an oriental medical university hospital in TaeJeon. The sample of the study was 966 inpatients discharged from the 4 clinical departments of th hospital from January 1 to June 31, 1998. The major findings are as follows : 1. The average length of stay was 15.6 days in dept. of Internal Medicine, 16.9 in Acupuncture, 10.1 in Neuro-psychiatry and 24.3 in Physical therapy Daily average medical charge of the depart ments was 70,517 Won 62,011 Won, 82,750Won and 65,390 Won respectively. 2. The daily average medical charge of the departments was highest in the first day of admission. From the second day, it maintained a lower and relatively constant level, but showing slight fluctation in the latter halt of the hospital stay.