US Health Care Costs

Mayo Clinic Health System - Fairmont

800 Medical Center Drive, Fairmont, MN 56031 · (507) 238-5064

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

The money

$50what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
−$4.8Mnet income, all sources
−9.5%margin on patient care alone
$1.8Mcost of charity care (2.7% of costs)
$347,755unpaid bills written off (bad debt)
37beds

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
Heart failure, with major complications 29133$17,006$13,706
Sepsis, with major complications 87130$23,473$21,059
Urinary tract infection 69023$15,654$8,654
Pneumonia, with complications 19420$17,021$8,753
Lung infection, with complications 17816$18,583$10,558
Pneumonia, with major complications 19316$17,310$14,326
Sepsis 87215$15,811$11,400
Lung infection, with major complications 17713$24,562$17,830
Urinary tract infection, with major complications 68913$13,900$12,394
Stroke, with complications or clot-busting drug 06512$25,678$10,784
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".