84/100
#218 nationally
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
6701 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21204 · (443) 849-2000
Charges close to what care is actually paid for
For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Greater Baltimore Medical Center billed $1.14 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
- 1.1x
- volume-weighted across all its priced work
- Procedures priced
- 94
- inpatient and outpatient combined
- Rank in MD
- #9
- lower markup ranks higher
- CMS quality stars
- 5/5
- 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.
Better than 95% of U.S. hospitals.
Not published for this hospital — scored at 50% of the component rather than zero, because an absent figure is not a bad one.
Better than 95% of U.S. hospitals.
Better than 95% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Heart Failure (severe)
MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay |
225 | $19,124 | $16,804 | -56% |
|
Sepsis (severe)
MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay |
193 | $30,429 | $26,346 | -53% |
|
Urinary Tract Infection (without major complications)
MS-DRG 690 · Inpatient stay |
153 | $12,433 | $10,983 | -58% |
|
Digestive Disorder (without major complications)
MS-DRG 392 · Inpatient stay |
115 | $12,005 | $10,648 | -63% |
|
Respiratory Infection (severe)
MS-DRG 177 · Inpatient stay |
102 | $20,644 | $18,194 | -62% |
|
Pneumonia (severe)
MS-DRG 193 · Inpatient stay |
98 | $20,275 | $17,869 | -56% |
|
Pneumonia (with complications)
MS-DRG 194 · Inpatient stay |
93 | $14,061 | $12,155 | -56% |
|
Skin Infection (without major complications)
MS-DRG 603 · Inpatient stay |
92 | $15,065 | $13,370 | -51% |
|
Urinary Tract Infection (severe)
MS-DRG 689 · Inpatient stay |
85 | $18,948 | $16,751 | -54% |
|
Gastrointestinal Bleeding (with complications)
MS-DRG 378 · Inpatient stay |
80 | $14,772 | $13,068 | -64% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Respiratory Failure
MS-DRG 189 · Inpatient stay |
$27,924 | $24,459 | -42% |
|
Kidney or Urinary Disorder (severe)
MS-DRG 698 · Inpatient stay |
$30,636 | $26,955 | -46% |
|
Heart Failure (with complications)
MS-DRG 292 · Inpatient stay |
$17,331 | $15,234 | -48% |
|
Carotid Artery Stent Procedures without Complications/mcc
MS-DRG 036 · Inpatient stay |
$36,402 | $32,592 | -48% |
|
Other Digestive System Diagnoses with Major Complications
MS-DRG 393 · Inpatient stay |
$32,019 | $28,158 | -50% |
|
Skin Infection (without major complications)
MS-DRG 603 · Inpatient stay |
$15,065 | $13,370 | -51% |
|
Infection Needing Surgery (severe)
MS-DRG 853 · Inpatient stay |
$87,338 | $69,155 | -51% |
|
Sepsis (without major complications)
MS-DRG 872 · Inpatient stay |
$19,167 | $17,007 | -51% |
Where it charges least relative to everyone else
| Procedure | Charged | Actually paid | vs national |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Cirrhosis and Alcoholic Hepatitis with Major Complications
MS-DRG 432 · Inpatient stay |
$15,919 | $14,061 | -80% |
|
Peripheral Vascular Disorders with Major Complications
MS-DRG 299 · Inpatient stay |
$14,564 | $12,985 | -78% |
|
Degenerative Nervous System Disorders with Major Complications
MS-DRG 056 · Inpatient stay |
$20,056 | $15,279 | -77% |
|
Other Digestive System Diagnoses with Complications
MS-DRG 394 · Inpatient stay |
$10,782 | $9,563 | -72% |
|
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy without C.d.e. with Complications
MS-DRG 418 · Inpatient stay |
$23,358 | $20,860 | -72% |
|
Extensive Operating Room Procedures Unrelated to Principal Diagnosis with Major
MS-DRG 981 · Inpatient stay |
$52,462 | $46,458 | -71% |
|
Transient Ischemia without Thrombolytic
MS-DRG 069 · Inpatient stay |
$11,903 | $10,508 | -71% |
|
Stroke (severe)
MS-DRG 064 · Inpatient stay |
$22,014 | $19,452 | -71% |
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.