CostGrade
C

60/100

#949 nationally

Community Memorial Hospital - Ventura

147 North Brent Street, Ventura, CA 93003 · (805) 652-5011

Charges well above the national norm

For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Community Memorial Hospital - Ventura billed $3.80 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
122
inpatient and outpatient combined
Rank in CA
#14
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 23.5/35

Better than 67% of U.S. hospitals.

Outpatient charge markup 17.2/25

Better than 69% of U.S. hospitals.

Price level vs national median 16.1/30

Better than 54% of U.S. hospitals.

Price consistency 3.7/10

Better than 37% 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
Level 2 Urology and Related Services

APC 5372 · Hospital outpatient visit

841 $267 $840 -92%
Comprehensive Observation Services

APC 8011 · Hospital outpatient visit

366 $13,544 $3,329 -30%
Sepsis (severe)

MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay

272 $55,668 $21,852 -15%
Level 1 Intraocular Procedures

APC 5491 · Hospital outpatient visit

250 $18,915 $2,847 +61%
Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures

APC 5115 · Hospital outpatient visit

207 $75,943 $16,148 +22%
Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage

APC 5072 · Hospital outpatient visit

176 $7,051 $1,918 -30%
Level 1 Endovascular Procedures

APC 5191 · Hospital outpatient visit

157 $22,597 $3,958 -10%
Level 3 Urology and Related Services

APC 5373 · Hospital outpatient visit

144 $3,057 $2,504 -76%
Level 3 Electrophysiologic Procedures

APC 5213 · Hospital outpatient visit

138 $152,197 $28,716 +15%
Heart Failure (severe)

MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay

133 $38,300 $14,676 -12%

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 Pacemaker and Similar Procedures

APC 5223 · Hospital outpatient visit

$87,984 $13,108 +71%
Level 3 Extraocular, Repair, and Plastic Eye Procedures

APC 5503 · Hospital outpatient visit

$23,894 $2,873 +65%
Endovascular Cardiac Valve Replacement and Supplement Procedures with Major Complications

MS-DRG 266 · Inpatient stay

$388,559 $77,481 +62%
Level 1 Intraocular Procedures

APC 5491 · Hospital outpatient visit

$18,915 $2,847 +61%
Spinal Fusion Except Cervical without Major Complications

MS-DRG 460 · Inpatient stay

$222,739 $40,782 +54%
Revision of Hip or Knee Replacement without Complications/mcc

MS-DRG 468 · Inpatient stay

$161,154 $29,911 +49%
Diabetes with Major Complications

MS-DRG 637 · Inpatient stay

$79,738 $17,242 +41%
Level 1 Abdominal/peritoneal/biliary and Related Procedures

APC 5341 · Hospital outpatient visit

$32,462 $4,254 +40%

Where it charges least relative to everyone else

Procedure Charged Actually paid vs national
Level 3 ENT Procedures

APC 5163 · Hospital outpatient visit

$173 $1,875 -97%
Level 2 Urology and Related Services

APC 5372 · Hospital outpatient visit

$267 $840 -92%
Level 3 Urology and Related Services

APC 5373 · Hospital outpatient visit

$3,057 $2,504 -76%
Level 2 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures

APC 5462 · Hospital outpatient visit

$12,436 $8,407 -53%
Pulmonary Embolism with Major Complications or Acute Cor Pulmonale

MS-DRG 175 · Inpatient stay

$28,605 $14,680 -48%
Extensive Operating Room Procedures Unrelated to Principal Diagnosis with Major

MS-DRG 981 · Inpatient stay

$101,595 $43,791 -45%
Postoperative and Post-traumatic Infections without Major Complications

MS-DRG 863 · Inpatient stay

$21,366 $11,305 -44%
Gastrointestinal Obstruction with Complications

MS-DRG 389 · Inpatient stay

$18,037 $9,460 -42%

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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