84/100
#219 nationally
Holy Cross Germantown Hospital
19801 Observation Drive, Germantown, MD 20876 · (301) 557-6020
Charges close to what care is actually paid for
For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Holy Cross Germantown Hospital billed $1.11 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
- 43
- inpatient and outpatient combined
- Rank in MD
- #10
- lower markup ranks higher
- CMS quality stars
- 1/5
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Sepsis (severe)
MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay |
219 | $24,652 | $22,379 | -62% |
|
Heart Failure (severe)
MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay |
70 | $16,569 | $14,851 | -62% |
|
Respiratory Failure
MS-DRG 189 · Inpatient stay |
67 | $16,883 | $15,171 | -65% |
|
Sepsis (without major complications)
MS-DRG 872 · Inpatient stay |
65 | $14,754 | $13,291 | -62% |
|
Urinary Tract Infection (without major complications)
MS-DRG 690 · Inpatient stay |
60 | $9,282 | $8,296 | -69% |
|
Psychoses
MS-DRG 885 · Inpatient stay |
49 | $13,564 | $12,062 | -62% |
|
Respiratory Infection (severe)
MS-DRG 177 · Inpatient stay |
48 | $22,975 | $20,491 | -58% |
|
Pneumonia (severe)
MS-DRG 193 · Inpatient stay |
48 | $16,432 | $15,076 | -65% |
|
Urinary Tract Infection (severe)
MS-DRG 689 · Inpatient stay |
41 | $15,627 | $13,884 | -62% |
|
COPD (severe)
MS-DRG 190 · Inpatient stay |
32 | $12,946 | $11,738 | -69% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Digestive Disorder (severe)
MS-DRG 391 · Inpatient stay |
$26,328 | $23,584 | -49% |
|
Revision of Hip or Knee Replacement with Complications
MS-DRG 467 · Inpatient stay |
$61,874 | $54,647 | -52% |
|
Revision of Hip or Knee Replacement without Complications/mcc
MS-DRG 468 · Inpatient stay |
$49,072 | $43,677 | -55% |
|
Other Cerebrovascular Disorders with Major Complications
MS-DRG 070 · Inpatient stay |
$29,696 | $26,329 | -55% |
|
Respiratory Infection (severe)
MS-DRG 177 · Inpatient stay |
$22,975 | $20,491 | -58% |
|
Gastrointestinal Obstruction with Complications
MS-DRG 389 · Inpatient stay |
$12,110 | $10,845 | -61% |
|
Urinary Tract Infection (severe)
MS-DRG 689 · Inpatient stay |
$15,627 | $13,884 | -62% |
|
Heart Failure (severe)
MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay |
$16,569 | $14,851 | -62% |
Where it charges least relative to everyone else
| Procedure | Charged | Actually paid | vs national |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Gastrointestinal Bleeding (with complications)
MS-DRG 378 · Inpatient stay |
$9,652 | $8,587 | -77% |
|
Irregular Heartbeat (severe)
MS-DRG 308 · Inpatient stay |
$11,279 | $10,391 | -76% |
|
Heart Attack (severe)
MS-DRG 280 · Inpatient stay |
$14,727 | $13,237 | -76% |
|
Infection Needing Surgery (severe)
MS-DRG 853 · Inpatient stay |
$43,134 | $38,650 | -76% |
|
Pneumonia (with complications)
MS-DRG 194 · Inpatient stay |
$7,783 | $7,137 | -75% |
|
Stroke (with complications)
MS-DRG 065 · Inpatient stay |
$11,375 | $10,256 | -75% |
|
Back Problems (without major complications)
MS-DRG 552 · Inpatient stay |
$9,870 | $8,779 | -75% |
|
Major Small and Large Bowel Procedures with Complications
MS-DRG 330 · Inpatient stay |
$25,776 | $22,878 | -74% |
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.