US Health Care Costs

Lovelace Westside Hospital

10501 Golf Course Road NW, Albuquerque, NM 87114 · (505) 727-2001

General hospitalProprietaryEmergency roomCMS rating ★★★★★

The money

$10what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$17.6Mnet income, all sources
16.0%margin on patient care alone
$807,171cost of charity care (1.4% of costs)
$5.3Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
92beds

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending January 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 87162$81,124$13,561
Heart failure, with major complications 29126$70,291$10,429
Pneumonia, with major complications 19322$60,739$9,809
Lung infection, with major complications 17718$81,614$11,090
Sepsis 87217$77,494$7,187
Kidney failure, with major complications 68211$77,857$9,803
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