Howard County Medical Center

P O Box 406, 1113 Sherman St, St Paul, NE 68873 · (308) 754-4421

Rural (critical access) hospitalVoluntary non-profit - OtherEmergency room

Howard County Medical Center is a non-profit rural critical-access hospital in St Paul, Nebraska (Howard County), with 10 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $1.36 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Nebraska hospital ($3.68).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating

$1.36listed for every $1 its care costs Nebraska typical $3.68

1 h 33 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min

10beds

Quality and patient experience

Source: CMS Care Compare, measurement periods ending up to September 2025.

The money

$74what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed

$1.7Mnet income, all sources

−8.4%margin on patient care alone

$184,211cost of charity care (0.7% of costs)

$473,278unpaid bills written off (bad debt)

114full-time staff (equivalent)

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.

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".

This hospital has no Medicare stay data for 2024. Medicare data covers mostly patients 65 and older, so psychiatric, children's and very small hospitals often don't appear.

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