US Health Care Costs

Rivers Health

2520 Valley Drive, Point Pleasant, WV 25550 · (304) 675-4340

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

The money

$32what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
−$7.7Mnet income, all sources
−49.1%margin on patient care alone
$965,891cost of charity care (1.8% of costs)
$2.1Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
43beds

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending September 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
Urinary tract infection 69024$22,050$5,942
Sepsis, with major complications 87124$35,103$12,364
Pneumonia, with major complications 19318$33,488$8,944
Heart failure, with major complications 29118$25,334$8,262
Pneumonia, with complications 19416$27,405$5,889
Sepsis 87214$27,393$7,175
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".