US Health Care Costs

Wood County Hospital

950 West Wooster Street, Bowling Green, OH 43402 · (419) 354-8900

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

The money

$36what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$9.6Mnet income, all sources
−3.0%margin on patient care alone
$979,883cost of charity care (1.1% of costs)
$7.1Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
99beds

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
Heart failure, with major complications 29150$17,771$8,903
Hip or knee replacement 47048$38,701$13,061
Sepsis, with major complications 87135$25,625$13,197
Pneumonia, with complications 19416$13,592$6,573
Lung infection, with major complications 17715$22,791$10,559
Respiratory failure 18912$27,694$9,602
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".