US Health Care Costs

Mayo Clinic Health System in Red Wing

701 Hewitt Boulevard, Red Wing, MN 55066 · (651) 267-5000

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

The money

$49what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$6.2Mnet income, all sources
1.7%margin on patient care alone
$1.8Mcost of charity care (1.6% of costs)
$871,009unpaid bills written off (bad debt)
27beds

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 29152$22,632$11,584
Sepsis, with major complications 87141$30,009$17,011
Pneumonia, with major complications 19319$20,256$11,849
Lung infection, with major complications 17717$29,676$14,904
Sepsis 87215$21,455$9,543
Pneumonia, with complications 19413$13,729$7,987
Kidney failure, with major complications 68213$21,057$12,958
Lung infection, with complications 17811$19,138$10,746
Bowel obstruction, with complications 38911$14,002$7,798
Kidney failure, with complications 68311$14,430$8,442
Urinary tract infection, with major complications 68911$22,500$10,738
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".