US Health Care Costs

Vaughan Regional Medical Center Parkway Campus

1015 Medical Center Parkway, Selma, AL 36701 · (334) 418-4100

General hospitalProprietaryEmergency roomCMS rating ★★★★★

The money

$6what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
−$75.4Mnet income, all sources
$1.8Mcost of charity care (3.6% of costs)
$15.1Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
109beds

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending June 2025.

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 87155$99,398$14,920
Heart failure, with major complications 29140$74,428$10,830
Lung infection, with major complications 17723$84,552$11,933
Urinary tract infection, with major complications 68918$71,022$9,576
Respiratory failure 18916$73,359$10,341
Other kidney and urinary problems, with major complications 69813$77,779$12,845
Kidney failure, with complications 68312$77,893$8,311
Lung infection, with complications 17811$51,069$8,549
Dehydration and electrolyte problems, with major complications 64011$81,110$10,615
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