US Health Care Costs

Kaiser Foundation Hospital-San Jose

250 Hospital Parkway, San Jose, CA 95119 · (408) 972-7000

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

The money

$20what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$129.8Mnet income, all sources
15.9%margin on patient care alone
$9.0Mcost of charity care (1.8% of costs)
$1.6Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
235beds

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 871107$110,723$27,870
Sepsis 87221$66,898$26,857
Heart failure, with major complications 29119$42,858$17,698
Infection needing surgery, with major complications 85315$226,044$79,580
Respiratory failure 18913$56,036$37,723
Stroke, with major complications 06412$101,141$28,853
Kidney failure, with complications 68312$48,237$27,737
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".