Highline Medical Center

16251 Sylvester Road SW, Burien, WA 98166 · (206) 431-5237

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

The money

$19what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed

$2.3Mnet income, all sources

−4.9%margin on patient care alone

$11.6Mcost of charity care (4.8% of costs)

$7.8Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)

132beds

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

Stay	Medicare stays	Billed	Paid
Sepsis, with major complications 871	142	$87,746	$17,678
Heart failure, with major complications 291	54	$64,451	$11,815
Heart attack, with major complications 280	50	$68,118	$15,071
Respiratory failure 189	30	$54,216	$12,350
Pneumonia, with major complications 193	24	$69,848	$12,638
Kidney failure, with complications 683	23	$51,275	$8,615
Sepsis 872	23	$54,055	$10,827
Psychoses 885	23	$73,325	$17,633
Dehydration and electrolyte problems, with major complications 640	20	$66,708	$14,301
Kidney failure, with major complications 682	20	$79,307	$13,813
Heart attack, with complications 281	18	$58,723	$9,564
Dehydration and electrolyte problems 641	18	$45,502	$7,514
Lung infection, with major complications 177	17	$94,612	$14,555
Hip or thigh bone surgery (not replacement), with complications 481	15	$120,002	$17,763
Urinary tract infection, with major complications 689	13	$49,751	$10,653
Other kidney and urinary problems, with major complications 698	13	$62,245	$14,474
Stomach or intestinal bleeding, with complications 378	12	$61,365	$9,193
Stomach or intestinal bleeding, with major complications 377	11	$95,298	$14,930
Diabetes, with major complications 637	11	$58,723	$12,848
Infection needing surgery, with major complications 853	11	$151,018	$32,122

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