US Health Care Costs

Parkview Dekalb Hospital

1316 E Seventh St, Auburn, IN 46706 · (260) 925-4600

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

The money

$19what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$4.4Mnet income, all sources
3.2%margin on patient care alone
$925,084cost of charity care (1.6% of costs)
$7.8Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
48beds

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 87144$31,665$15,094
Heart failure, with major complications 29118$36,298$11,653
Lung infection, with major complications 17716$38,001$14,213
Pneumonia, with major complications 19312$25,363$11,823
Respiratory failure 18911$23,485$11,273
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".