US Health Care Costs

St Marys Healthcare

427 Guy Park Avenue, Amsterdam, NY 12010 · (518) 842-1900

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

The money

$30what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
−$16.8Mnet income, all sources
−21.9%margin on patient care alone
$1.2Mcost of charity care (0.7% of costs)
$11.7Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
100beds

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending June 2025. 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 87184$42,121$17,663
Heart failure, with major complications 29182$34,940$11,458
Lung infection, with major complications 17727$44,694$14,601
Pneumonia, with major complications 19326$37,225$12,272
Sepsis 87221$31,364$9,608
Urinary tract infection, with major complications 68918$32,271$10,354
Pneumonia, with complications 19417$27,496$7,680
Respiratory failure 18916$52,362$12,841
Other kidney and urinary problems, with major complications 69816$37,547$14,264
Kidney failure, with complications 68315$29,048$8,138
Urinary tract infection 69015$20,116$7,505
COPD, with major complications 19012$36,096$10,007
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".