US Health Care Costs

Gateway Regional Medical Center

2100 Madison Avenue, Granite City, IL 62040 · (618) 798-3000

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

The money

$12what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
−$28.7Mnet income, all sources
−103.4%margin on patient care alone
$351,998cost of charity care (0.5% of costs)
288beds

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
Psychoses 885131$52,868$11,487
Sepsis, with major complications 87140$126,579$15,041
Heart attack, with major complications 28019$94,091$12,536
Pneumonia, with major complications 19316$103,318$10,595
Heart failure, with major complications 29115$96,150$10,773
Lung infection, with major complications 17711$108,334$13,314
COPD, with major complications 19011$86,366$9,381
Kidney failure, with major complications 68211$81,052$11,749
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".