US Health Care Costs

Chinese Hospital

845 Jackson St, San Francisco, CA 94133 · (415) 677-2480

General hospitalVoluntary non-profit - PrivateEmergency roomCMS rating ★★★★★

The money

$33what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
−$18.0Mnet income, all sources
−65.6%margin on patient care alone
$441,227cost of charity care (0.5% of costs)
$773,819unpaid bills written off (bad debt)
58beds

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending December 2024. Non-profit hospitals must have a financial assistance (charity care) policy; ask for it if a bill is hard to pay.

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 87145$88,491$23,037
Heart failure, with major complications 29116$48,201$14,544
Lung infection, with major complications 17712$67,086$18,454
Cash and insurer prices for this hospital haven't been added yet. Every US hospital must publish them; search the hospital's website for "price transparency" or "standard charges".