US Health Care Costs

Marshfield Medical Center - Eau Claire

2310 Craig Rd, Eau Claire, WI 54701 · (715) 858-8100

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

The money

$40what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
−$49.9Mnet income, all sources
−24.8%margin on patient care alone
$991,364cost of charity care (0.5% of costs)
$3.1Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
56beds

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 87175$50,064$17,324
Pneumonia, with major complications 19332$34,525$9,269
Heart failure, with major complications 29128$42,259$10,527
Lung infection, with major complications 17719$36,531$11,712
Heart attack, with major complications 28015$57,396$16,463
Kidney failure, with complications 68313$21,814$6,414
Respiratory failure 18912$34,091$8,542
Heart stent 32212$55,734$12,613
Kidney failure, with major complications 68212$35,902$9,630
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".