US Health Care Costs

Nashoba Valley Medical Center

200 Groton Road, Ayer, MA 01432 · (978) 784-9000

General hospitalProprietaryEmergency roomCMS rating Not rated

The money

$39what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
−$2.9Mnet income, all sources
−15.2%margin on patient care alone
$379,773cost of charity care (0.9% of costs)
$1.3Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
57beds

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending August 2024.

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
Pneumonia, with major complications 19330$15,885$10,191
Heart failure, with major complications 29118$14,577$9,596
Sepsis, with major complications 87117$25,722$13,546
Lung infection, with major complications 17716$21,393$12,714
COPD, with major complications 19015$11,711$8,709
Hip or knee replacement 47015$48,551$16,553
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