US Health Care Costs

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Oktibbeha County

400 Hospital Road, Starkville, MS 39759 · (662) 323-4320

General hospitalGovernment - LocalEmergency roomCMS rating ★★★★★

The money

$33what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$10.3Mnet income, all sources
5.4%margin on patient care alone
$328,887cost of charity care (0.6% of costs)
$19.9Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
88beds

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending September 2024.

Hospital stays

Medicare figures are 2024 averages for this hospital; the bars show how much of the bill was actually paid.

Billed (list price)Actually paid (Medicare + patient)

StayMedicare staysBilledPaid
Sepsis, with major complications 87157$32,225$15,000
Hip or thigh bone surgery (not replacement), with complications 48128$28,650$16,332
Hip replacement after a hip fracture 52228$39,011$16,691
Pneumonia, with major complications 19325$34,114$11,005
Heart failure, with major complications 29119$23,751$10,507
Lung infection, with major complications 17715$48,228$13,732
Sepsis 87215$16,467$8,828
Respiratory failure 18912$28,461$10,021
Infection needing surgery, with major complications 85311$51,008$34,392
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