US Health Care Costs

Garrett Regional Medical Center

251 North Fourth Street, Oakland, MD 21550 · (301) 533-4173

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

The money

$61what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$6.5Mnet income, all sources
2.7%margin on patient care alone
$3.5Mcost of charity care (5.7% of costs)
$1.5Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
20beds

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 87187$20,776$18,461
Hip or knee replacement 47050$27,996$24,967
Heart failure, with major complications 29147$16,058$14,267
Sepsis 87232$13,262$11,756
COPD, with major complications 19029$16,332$14,581
Pneumonia, with complications 19419$13,293$11,809
Urinary tract infection 69015$12,823$11,377
Pneumonia, with major complications 19314$16,053$14,256
Bowel obstruction, with complications 38914$10,510$9,321
Kidney failure, with complications 68314$15,674$13,909
Other Factors Influencing Health Status 95113$2,058$1,849
Lung infection, with major complications 17711$18,613$16,530
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".