Palacios Community Medical Center

311 Green Avenue, Palacios, TX 77465 · (361) 972-2511

Rural (critical access) hospitalVoluntary non-profit - PrivateEmergency room

Palacios Community Medical Center is a non-profit rural critical-access hospital in Palacios, Texas (Matagorda County), with 17 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $1.78 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Texas hospital ($6.38).

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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating

$1.78listed for every $1 its care costs Texas typical $6.38

1 h 20 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min

17beds

Quality and patient experience

Source: CMS Care Compare, measurement periods ending up to September 2025.

The money

$56what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed

$511,771net income, all sources

−22.6%margin on patient care alone

$761,691cost of charity care (11.3% of costs)

$1.4Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)

29full-time staff (equivalent)

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.

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".

This hospital has no Medicare stay data for 2024. Medicare data covers mostly patients 65 and older, so psychiatric, children's and very small hospitals often don't appear.

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