Rice Medical Center
600 South Austin Road, Eagle Lake, TX 77434 · (979) 234-5571
Rice Medical Center is a for-profit rural critical-access hospital in Eagle Lake, Texas (Colorado County), with 21 beds. It has an emergency room. It lists $1.75 for every $1 its care costs, less than the typical Texas hospital ($6.38).
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Not ratedCMS overall quality rating
$1.75listed for every $1 its care costs Texas typical $6.38
1 h 41 mintypical ER visit US typical 2 h 28 min
21beds
Quality and patient experience
Source: CMS Care Compare, measurement periods ending up to September 2025.
The money
$57what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$4.0Mnet income, all sources
−11.6%margin on patient care alone
$1.3Mcost of charity care (5.6% of costs)
$1.7Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
97full-time staff (equivalent)
From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending December 2024.
Cash and insurer prices for this hospital haven't been added yet. The hospital publishes them on its own price page.
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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