US Health Care Costs

George Regional Health System

859 Winter Street, Lucedale, MS 39452 · (601) 947-3161

General hospitalGovernment - LocalEmergency roomCMS rating ★★★★★

The money

$36what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$12.2Mnet income, all sources
8.7%margin on patient care alone
$2.2Mcost of charity care (7.4% of costs)
$39,096unpaid bills written off (bad debt)
39beds

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
Urinary tract infection 69020$16,553$7,330
Pneumonia, with major complications 19315$29,346$11,236
Sepsis, with major complications 87113$37,951$16,226
Lung infection, with major complications 17712$28,995$14,715
Pneumonia, with complications 19411$24,304$7,600
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