Christiana Hospital

4755 Ogletown-Stanton Road, Newark, DE 19718 · (302) 733-3609

Charges moderately above what care is paid for

For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Christiana Hospital billed $3.61 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 342 prices How we grade

Charge-to-payment: 3.6x; volume-weighted across all its priced work
Procedures priced: 342; inpatient and outpatient combined
Rank in DE: #2; lower markup ranks higher
CMS quality stars: 4/5; 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 21.7/35

Better than 62% of U.S. hospitals.

Outpatient charge markup 19.6/25

Better than 78% of U.S. hospitals.

Price level vs national median 19.7/30

Better than 66% of U.S. hospitals.

Price consistency 5.7/10

Better than 57% 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	1,883	$13,217	$2,701	-32%
Sepsis (severe) MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay	1,193	$63,922	$19,031	about average
Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures APC 5115 · Hospital outpatient visit	1,029	$42,898	$13,004	-31%
Heart Failure (severe) MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay	803	$41,251	$12,433	-5%
Level 1 Endovascular Procedures APC 5191 · Hospital outpatient visit	660	$21,210	$3,243	-16%
Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage APC 5072 · Hospital outpatient visit	556	$6,397	$1,612	-37%
Level 3 Urology and Related Services APC 5373 · Hospital outpatient visit	546	$9,630	$2,015	-25%
Level 2 Urology and Related Services APC 5372 · Hospital outpatient visit	497	$2,580	$680	-18%
Pneumonia (severe) MS-DRG 193 · Inpatient stay	437	$38,520	$12,627	-17%
Respiratory Infection (severe) MS-DRG 177 · Inpatient stay	381	$53,275	$15,896	-3%

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
Coagulation Disorders MS-DRG 813 · Inpatient stay	$132,477	$25,331	+98%
Psychoses MS-DRG 885 · Inpatient stay	$62,081	$21,656	+72%
Cochlear Implant Procedure APC 5166 · Hospital outpatient visit	$208,711	$33,541	+71%
Percutaneous and Other Intracardiac Procedures without Major Complications MS-DRG 274 · Inpatient stay	$188,850	$28,936	+52%
Minor Skin Disorders without Major Complications MS-DRG 607 · Inpatient stay	$55,910	$14,157	+47%
Level 5 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures APC 5465 · Hospital outpatient visit	$154,959	$30,759	+37%
Level 4 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures APC 5464 · Hospital outpatient visit	$110,502	$21,891	+37%
Level 3 Electrophysiologic Procedures APC 5213 · Hospital outpatient visit	$177,645	$23,393	+34%

Where it charges least relative to everyone else

Procedure	Charged	Actually paid	vs national
Level 3 Breast/lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures APC 5093 · Hospital outpatient visit	$18,912	$9,452	-72%
Level 2 Pacemaker and Similar Procedures APC 5222 · Hospital outpatient visit	$15,414	$8,522	-59%
Other Circulatory System Operating Room Procedures MS-DRG 264 · Inpatient stay	$55,474	$28,069	-59%
Viral Illness with Major Complications MS-DRG 865 · Inpatient stay	$38,396	$15,102	-59%
Level 4 Airway Endoscopy APC 5154 · Hospital outpatient visit	$9,935	$3,706	-56%
Major Hematological and Immunological Diagnoses Except Sickle Cell Crisis and Coagulatio MS-DRG 808 · Inpatient stay	$47,235	$19,966	-56%
Otitis Media and Uri without Major Complications MS-DRG 153 · Inpatient stay	$20,260	$7,728	-55%
Level 2 Vascular Procedures APC 5182 · Hospital outpatient visit	$3,938	$1,607	-54%

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 Newark

A
Tidalhealth Nanticoke, Inc.
2.0x · Seaford, DE
C
Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus
3.9x · Milford, DE
C
Bayhealth Medical Center, Kent Campus
4.0x · Dover, 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: 080001
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.