CostGrade
A

83/100

#259 nationally

Davis Medical Center

812 Gorman Avenue, Elkins, WV 26241 · (304) 636-3300

Charges close to what care is actually paid for

For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Davis Medical Center billed $2.67 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
2.7x
volume-weighted across all its priced work
Procedures priced
26
inpatient and outpatient combined
Rank in WV
#1
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 31.3/35

Better than 90% of U.S. hospitals.

Outpatient charge markup 18.9/25

Better than 76% of U.S. hospitals.

Price level vs national median 27.3/30

Better than 91% of U.S. hospitals.

Price consistency 5.2/10

Better than 52% 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

161 $7,674 $2,374 -61%
Sepsis (severe)

MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay

83 $27,166 $15,211 -58%
Level 1 Intraocular Procedures

APC 5491 · Hospital outpatient visit

62 $14,842 $2,037 +26%
Heart Failure (severe)

MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay

45 $17,112 $9,914 -61%
Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures

APC 5115 · Hospital outpatient visit

44 $49,241 $11,176 -21%
Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures

APC 5113 · Hospital outpatient visit

36 $14,649 $2,677 -28%
Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures

APC 5112 · Hospital outpatient visit

35 $4,749 $1,337 -58%
Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures

APC 5114 · Hospital outpatient visit

27 $33,640 $5,957 -16%
Pneumonia (severe)

MS-DRG 193 · Inpatient stay

26 $19,649 $10,066 -58%
Level 1 Nerve Procedures

APC 5431 · Hospital outpatient visit

23 $4,735 $1,669 -58%

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 1 Intraocular Procedures

APC 5491 · Hospital outpatient visit

$14,842 $2,037 +26%
Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage

APC 5072 · Hospital outpatient visit

$9,267 $1,389 -8%
Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures

APC 5114 · Hospital outpatient visit

$33,640 $5,957 -16%
Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures

APC 5115 · Hospital outpatient visit

$49,241 $11,176 -21%
Hip Replacement with Principal Diagnosis of Hip Fracture without Major Complications

MS-DRG 522 · Inpatient stay

$63,177 $19,770 -26%
Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures

APC 5113 · Hospital outpatient visit

$14,649 $2,677 -28%
Level 3 Vascular Procedures

APC 5183 · Hospital outpatient visit

$12,872 $2,408 -33%
Hip or Thigh Bone Surgery (with complications)

MS-DRG 481 · Inpatient stay

$54,405 $17,466 -35%

Where it charges least relative to everyone else

Procedure Charged Actually paid vs national
Level 2 Upper GI Procedures

APC 5302 · Hospital outpatient visit

$3,034 $1,588 -74%
Heart Attack (with complications)

MS-DRG 281 · Inpatient stay

$12,368 $6,935 -72%
Respiratory Failure

MS-DRG 189 · Inpatient stay

$15,494 $9,279 -68%
Heart Attack (severe)

MS-DRG 280 · Inpatient stay

$20,118 $12,172 -67%
Urinary Tract Infection (severe)

MS-DRG 689 · Inpatient stay

$13,465 $8,796 -67%
Digestive Disorder (without major complications)

MS-DRG 392 · Inpatient stay

$10,979 $6,075 -66%
Respiratory Infection (severe)

MS-DRG 177 · Inpatient stay

$18,973 $12,699 -66%
Sepsis (without major complications)

MS-DRG 872 · Inpatient stay

$13,801 $7,817 -65%

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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