Bayhealth Medical Center, Kent Campus

640 S State Street, Dover, DE 19901 · (302) 744-7001

Charges well above the national norm

For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Bayhealth Medical Center, Kent Campus billed $4.05 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.

See all 139 prices How we grade

Charge-to-payment: 4.0x; volume-weighted across all its priced work
Procedures priced: 139; inpatient and outpatient combined
Rank in DE: #5; lower markup ranks higher
CMS quality stars: 2/5; 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 20.7/35

Better than 59% of U.S. hospitals.

Outpatient charge markup 14.7/25

Better than 59% of U.S. hospitals.

Price level vs national median 17.9/30

Better than 60% of U.S. hospitals.

Price consistency 7.2/10

Better than 72% 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
Comprehensive Observation Services APC 8011 · Hospital outpatient visit	1,206	$17,736	$2,742	-9%
Sepsis (severe) MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay	485	$60,540	$17,049	-7%
Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage APC 5072 · Hospital outpatient visit	338	$9,101	$1,614	-10%
Heart Failure (severe) MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay	265	$36,062	$11,477	-17%
Level 3 Urology and Related Services APC 5373 · Hospital outpatient visit	234	$11,294	$1,961	-13%
Level 1 Endovascular Procedures APC 5191 · Hospital outpatient visit	219	$17,156	$3,272	-32%
Pneumonia (severe) MS-DRG 193 · Inpatient stay	153	$42,334	$11,640	-9%
Level 2 Upper GI Procedures APC 5302 · Hospital outpatient visit	147	$11,428	$1,914	about average
Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures APC 5115 · Hospital outpatient visit	134	$64,292	$13,103	about average
Level 3 Endovascular Procedures APC 5193 · Hospital outpatient visit	130	$45,742	$11,054	-32%

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
Level 3 Upper GI Procedures APC 5303 · Hospital outpatient visit	$33,328	$3,852	+52%
Disorders of the Biliary Tract with Major Complications MS-DRG 444 · Inpatient stay	$91,518	$19,504	+28%
Level 2 Icd and Similar Procedures APC 5232 · Hospital outpatient visit	$189,282	$32,991	+27%
Level 3 Lower GI Procedures APC 5313 · Hospital outpatient visit	$21,098	$2,824	+27%
Pulmonary Embolism with Major Complications or Acute Cor Pulmonale MS-DRG 175 · Inpatient stay	$67,204	$18,585	+23%
Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage APC 5073 · Hospital outpatient visit	$21,274	$2,818	+20%
Level 2 Pacemaker and Similar Procedures APC 5222 · Hospital outpatient visit	$43,966	$8,544	+16%
Degenerative Nervous System Disorders without Major Complications MS-DRG 057 · Inpatient stay	$55,074	$14,205	+15%

Where it charges least relative to everyone else

Procedure	Charged	Actually paid	vs national
Pneumothorax with Major Complications MS-DRG 199 · Inpatient stay	$31,751	$13,898	-60%
Limb Reattachment, Hip and Femur Procedures for Multiple Significant Trauma MS-DRG 956 · Inpatient stay	$72,846	$22,877	-59%
Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures APC 5112 · Hospital outpatient visit	$5,808	$1,617	-48%
Complications of Treatment with Major Complications MS-DRG 919 · Inpatient stay	$39,629	$15,813	-47%
Interstitial Lung Disease with Major Complications MS-DRG 196 · Inpatient stay	$42,603	$14,997	-47%
Cirrhosis and Alcoholic Hepatitis with Major Complications MS-DRG 432 · Inpatient stay	$47,169	$16,344	-41%
Aftercare, Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue with Complications MS-DRG 560 · Inpatient stay	$24,137	$8,682	-41%
Circulatory Disorders Except Heart Attack, with Cardiac Catheterization with Major MS-DRG 286 · Inpatient stay	$52,948	$19,912	-40%

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.

Lower markups near Dover

A
Tidalhealth Nanticoke, Inc.
2.0x · Seaford, DE
B
Christiana Hospital
3.6x · Newark, DE
C
Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus
3.9x · Milford, DE
B
Beebe Medical Center
4.2x · Lewes, DE
C
St Francis Hospital
5.0x · Wilmington, DE

Compare with Tidalhealth Nanticoke, Inc.

The record

CMS provider number: 080004
Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
Emergency department: Yes
Setting: Metropolitan area core: primary flow within an urbanized area of 50,000 and greater

Source: CMS Medicare Inpatient and Outpatient utilisation files and Hospital General Information. See the files.