US Health Care Costs

Intermountain Health Platte Valley Hospital

1600 Prairie Center Pkwy, Brighton, CO 80601 · (303) 498-1600

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

The money

$20what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
−$3.4Mnet income, all sources
0.0%margin on patient care alone
$6.9Mcost of charity care (4.5% of costs)
$8.2Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
89beds

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending December 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 87159$79,919$17,614
Heart failure, with major complications 29124$50,541$10,514
Infection needing surgery, with major complications 85315$183,464$42,491
Sepsis 87214$41,982$9,460
Pneumonia, with major complications 19313$53,822$13,253
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".