US Health Care Costs

Heywood Hospital -

242 Green Street, Gardner, MA 01440 · (978) 632-3420

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

The money

$43what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$1.5Mnet income, all sources
−29.6%margin on patient care alone
$355,887cost of charity care (0.2% of costs)
$3.7Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
114beds

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending September 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 871110$24,895$15,383
Pneumonia, with major complications 193100$21,569$10,997
Heart failure, with major complications 29193$18,297$10,497
Urinary tract infection 69047$15,801$7,163
Psychoses 88542$37,990$12,215
COPD, with major complications 19040$16,486$9,276
Lung infection, with major complications 17735$21,457$13,291
Stomach and digestive disorders 39232$15,460$6,825
Urinary tract infection, with major complications 68932$18,944$9,955
Pneumonia, with complications 19421$15,382$7,061
Respiratory failure 18918$20,460$11,217
Stomach or intestinal bleeding, with complications 37818$21,771$8,616
Sepsis 87218$16,009$8,499
Hip or knee replacement 47017$40,280$15,702
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with Cc 19115$15,048$7,245
Hip or thigh bone surgery (not replacement), with complications 48114$34,831$16,565
Gastrointestinal Obstruction Without Cc/Mcc 39013$10,776$5,482
Stroke, with complications or clot-busting drug 06512$15,771$8,722
Lung infection, with complications 17812$16,133$7,833
Skin infection (cellulitis) 60312$15,733$7,633
Dehydration and electrolyte problems 64112$18,780$6,796
Hip replacement after a hip fracture 52211$42,138$17,352
Kidney failure, with complications 68311$17,479$7,729
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