US Health Care Costs

Cary Medical Center

163 Van Buren Rd, Suite 1, Caribou, ME 04736 · (207) 498-3111

General hospitalGovernment - LocalEmergency roomCMS rating ★★★★★

The money

$37what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
−$704,820net income, all sources
−5.8%margin on patient care alone
$336,844cost of charity care (0.6% of costs)
$2.9Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
49beds

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending December 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
Pneumonia, with complications 19418$14,128$7,575
Sepsis, with major complications 87118$27,944$17,708
Heart failure, with major complications 29115$18,395$11,429
Sepsis 87214$15,929$9,325
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