US Health Care Costs

Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital

20480 Market Street, Onancock, VA 23417 · (757) 414-8000

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

The money

$23what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$10.8Mnet income, all sources
6.6%margin on patient care alone
$4.0Mcost of charity care (4.6% of costs)
$3.1Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
52beds

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 871113$28,399$14,073
Sepsis 87249$20,446$7,970
Heart failure, with major complications 29134$20,361$9,563
Lung infection, with major complications 17720$30,758$11,918
Pneumonia, with major complications 19316$23,876$9,773
Urinary tract infection 69013$17,856$6,365
Heart attack, with major complications 28011$21,580$11,402
Kidney failure, with complications 68311$15,963$7,644
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".