US Health Care Costs

Roger Williams Medical Center

825 Chalkstone Avenue, Providence, RI 02908 · (401) 456-2025

General hospitalProprietaryEmergency roomCMS rating ★★★★★

The money

$27what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
−$25.3Mnet income, all sources
−15.1%margin on patient care alone
$3.0Mcost of charity care (1.7% of costs)
$209,373unpaid bills written off (bad debt)
148beds

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending December 2024.

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 87167$57,273$20,490
Heart failure, with major complications 29126$31,965$13,226
Alcohol, Drug Abuse or Dependence Without Rehabilitation Therapy Without Mcc 89724$41,067$12,205
Heart attack, with major complications 28020$97,917$31,842
Urinary tract infection, with major complications 68919$29,851$12,713
Psychoses 88519$29,882$15,751
Pneumonia, with major complications 19318$47,155$16,313
Kidney failure, with complications 68318$32,131$9,414
Lung infection, with major complications 17717$49,255$16,337
COPD, with major complications 19017$49,293$13,071
Stomach and digestive disorders 39217$24,613$8,764
Kidney failure, with major complications 68217$33,557$14,229
Dehydration and electrolyte problems 64114$26,684$9,297
Stomach or intestinal bleeding, with complications 37813$34,085$11,109
Skin infection (cellulitis) 60313$22,612$10,135
Heart attack, with complications 28112$23,069$9,620
Dehydration and electrolyte problems, with major complications 64012$42,083$14,897
Sepsis 87211$33,499$11,464
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