CostGrade
A

84/100

#208 nationally

Adventist Healthcare White Oak Medical Center

11890 Healing Way, Silver Spring, MD 20904 · (240) 637-4000

Charges close to what care is actually paid for

For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Adventist Healthcare White Oak Medical Center billed $1.11 in list charges. That gap does not change a Medicare patient's bill — but it is where an uninsured or out-of-network bill starts.

Charge-to-payment
1.1x
volume-weighted across all its priced work
Procedures priced
82
inpatient and outpatient combined
Rank in MD
#3
lower markup ranks higher
CMS quality stars
3/5
shown for context, not in the grade

How this grade was reached

Each component is scored against every other U.S. hospital in the same federal files, so the grade is a position in the country, not a pass mark we invented.

Inpatient charge markup 33.3/35

Better than 95% of U.S. hospitals.

Outpatient charge markup 12.5/25

Not published for this hospital — scored at 50% of the component rather than zero, because an absent figure is not a bad one.

Price level vs national median 28.5/30

Better than 95% of U.S. hospitals.

Price consistency 9.5/10

Better than 95% of U.S. hospitals.

What this hospital treats most

The ten procedures it billed Medicare for most often, with its charge beside the national middle.

Procedure Patients Charged Actually paid vs national
Sepsis (severe)

MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay

385 $31,490 $28,264 -52%
Heart Failure (severe)

MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay

219 $21,298 $19,276 -51%
Pneumonia (severe)

MS-DRG 193 · Inpatient stay

98 $18,618 $16,719 -60%
Urinary Tract Infection (without major complications)

MS-DRG 690 · Inpatient stay

90 $12,290 $11,049 -59%
Endovascular Cardiac Valve Replacement and Supplement Procedures without Major

MS-DRG 267 · Inpatient stay

84 $76,754 $68,762 -59%
Respiratory Infection (severe)

MS-DRG 177 · Inpatient stay

71 $24,140 $21,710 -56%
Sepsis (without major complications)

MS-DRG 872 · Inpatient stay

69 $14,800 $13,323 -62%
Digestive Disorder (without major complications)

MS-DRG 392 · Inpatient stay

68 $12,214 $10,996 -62%
Stroke (with complications)

MS-DRG 065 · Inpatient stay

63 $17,311 $15,553 -62%
Gastrointestinal Bleeding (with complications)

MS-DRG 378 · Inpatient stay

62 $14,536 $13,073 -65%

Where its charges run furthest above the national middle

Only procedures it performed at least eleven times, so a single unusual case cannot produce the headline.

Procedure Charged Actually paid vs national
Respiratory Failure

MS-DRG 189 · Inpatient stay

$29,960 $26,813 -38%
Diabetes with Major Complications

MS-DRG 637 · Inpatient stay

$31,407 $28,145 -44%
Irregular Heartbeat (severe)

MS-DRG 308 · Inpatient stay

$23,863 $21,612 -50%
Heart Failure (severe)

MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay

$21,298 $19,276 -51%
Pulmonary Embolism without Major Complications

MS-DRG 176 · Inpatient stay

$17,026 $15,260 -51%
Sepsis (severe)

MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay

$31,490 $28,264 -52%
Gastrointestinal Obstruction with Complications

MS-DRG 389 · Inpatient stay

$15,036 $13,584 -52%
Heart Failure (with complications)

MS-DRG 292 · Inpatient stay

$15,793 $14,195 -52%

Where it charges least relative to everyone else

Procedure Charged Actually paid vs national
Tracheostomy with Mechanical Ventilation >96 Hours or Principal Diagnosis Except Face

MS-DRG 004 · Inpatient stay

$105,962 $94,839 -80%
Heart Attack (uncomplicated)

MS-DRG 282 · Inpatient stay

$7,780 $7,030 -80%
Circulatory Disorders Except Heart Attack, with Cardiac Catheterization without Major

MS-DRG 287 · Inpatient stay

$12,024 $10,844 -78%
Heart Catheter Procedure (without major complications)

MS-DRG 322 · Inpatient stay

$23,700 $21,351 -77%
Sepsis

MS-DRG 870 · Inpatient stay

$62,955 $56,339 -77%
Malignancy of Hepatobiliary System or Pancreas with Major Complications

MS-DRG 435 · Inpatient stay

$20,320 $18,200 -75%
Dysequilibrium

MS-DRG 149 · Inpatient stay

$10,048 $9,149 -74%
Circulatory Disorders Except Heart Attack, with Cardiac Catheterization with Major

MS-DRG 286 · Inpatient stay

$23,313 $20,867 -74%

What this page cannot tell you

  • It is not your bill. These are averages across Medicare patients. What you pay depends on your insurance, your plan's negotiated rate and your own case.
  • It is not a quality rating. A hospital with a high markup may be excellent, and one with a low markup may not be. We checked: across every U.S. hospital, markup and the CMS quality star rating barely move together.
  • A charge is not a cost. Hospitals do not collect their list charges from insured patients. The number matters because it is the opening figure on an uninsured or out-of-network bill.
  • Ask for the real number. Every U.S. hospital must publish a machine-readable price file and give you a written good-faith estimate on request.