CostGrade
B

67/100

#725 nationally

Chesapeake General Hospital

736 Battlefield Blvd, North, Chesapeake, VA 23320 · (757) 312-8121

Charges moderately above what care is paid for

For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Chesapeake General Hospital billed $3.82 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
3.8x
volume-weighted across all its priced work
Procedures priced
136
inpatient and outpatient combined
Rank in VA
#19
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 21.8/35

Better than 62% of U.S. hospitals.

Outpatient charge markup 15.9/25

Better than 64% of U.S. hospitals.

Price level vs national median 23.2/30

Better than 77% of U.S. hospitals.

Price consistency 5.8/10

Better than 58% 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

460 $10,958 $2,336 -44%
Sepsis (severe)

MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay

349 $41,679 $13,728 -36%
Heart Failure (severe)

MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay

254 $23,644 $9,094 -46%
Level 1 Endovascular Procedures

APC 5191 · Hospital outpatient visit

202 $8,665 $2,810 -66%
Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage

APC 5072 · Hospital outpatient visit

197 $10,072 $1,394 about average
Level 2 Upper GI Procedures

APC 5302 · Hospital outpatient visit

170 $7,937 $1,617 -32%
Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures

APC 5115 · Hospital outpatient visit

123 $66,121 $11,198 +6%
Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services

APC 5361 · Hospital outpatient visit

116 $29,901 $4,779 -15%
Level 3 Vascular Procedures

APC 5183 · Hospital outpatient visit

113 $14,052 $2,754 -26%
Respiratory Infection (severe)

MS-DRG 177 · Inpatient stay

103 $31,081 $11,553 -44%

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
Cervical Spinal Fusion with Complications

MS-DRG 472 · Inpatient stay

$170,285 $24,591 +42%
Level 6 Musculoskeletal Procedures

APC 5116 · Hospital outpatient visit

$117,766 $16,182 +42%
Level 5 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures

APC 5465 · Hospital outpatient visit

$135,801 $26,941 +20%
Level 4 Urology and Related Services

APC 5374 · Hospital outpatient visit

$24,629 $3,033 +19%
Spinal Fusion Except Cervical without Major Complications

MS-DRG 460 · Inpatient stay

$171,878 $31,108 +19%
Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures

APC 5113 · Hospital outpatient visit

$23,703 $2,817 +16%
Level 3 Upper GI Procedures

APC 5303 · Hospital outpatient visit

$23,787 $3,332 +9%
Level 4 ENT Procedures

APC 5164 · Hospital outpatient visit

$20,568 $2,801 +9%

Where it charges least relative to everyone else

Procedure Charged Actually paid vs national
Level 1 Endovascular Procedures

APC 5191 · Hospital outpatient visit

$8,665 $2,810 -66%
Headaches without Major Complications

MS-DRG 103 · Inpatient stay

$17,941 $6,307 -61%
Organic Disturbances and Intellectual Disability

MS-DRG 884 · Inpatient stay

$19,517 $11,437 -61%
Cirrhosis and Alcoholic Hepatitis with Major Complications

MS-DRG 432 · Inpatient stay

$32,816 $13,277 -59%
Degenerative Nervous System Disorders with Major Complications

MS-DRG 056 · Inpatient stay

$35,561 $16,275 -59%
Dysequilibrium

MS-DRG 149 · Inpatient stay

$16,294 $5,563 -59%
Circulatory Disorders Except Heart Attack, with Cardiac Catheterization without Major

MS-DRG 287 · Inpatient stay

$22,848 $7,766 -58%
Level 2 Endovascular Procedures

APC 5192 · Hospital outpatient visit

$14,648 $4,973 -58%

What this page cannot tell you

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  • 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.
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