US Health Care Costs

Highlands Arh Regional Medical Center

5000 Kentucky Route 321, Prestonsburg, KY 41653 · (606) 886-8511

General hospitalProprietaryEmergency roomCMS rating ★★★★★

The money

$20what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$26.2Mnet income, all sources
−22.0%margin on patient care alone
$866,000cost of charity care (0.7% of costs)
$8.1Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
63beds

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending June 2025.

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 87178$76,771$12,806
Pneumonia, with major complications 19325$48,023$8,642
COPD, with major complications 19018$52,406$7,247
Lung infection, with major complications 17714$40,913$10,657
Heart attack, with major complications 28014$48,475$9,821
Heart failure, with major complications 29114$40,345$8,438
Kidney failure, with complications 68313$39,471$5,909
Kidney failure, with major complications 68212$36,747$9,422
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