CostGrade

All published prices at Howard University Hospital Corp

35 procedures, each showing what the hospital billed, what that care was actually paid for, and how the charge compares with the national middle for the same coded work.

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Procedure Patients Charged Actually paid vs national
Level 1 Intraocular Procedures

APC 5491 · Hospital outpatient visit

173 $10,611 $2,363 -10%
Sepsis (severe)

MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay

124 $104,810 $33,883 +61%
Heart Failure (severe)

MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay

57 $52,501 $20,567 +21%
Comprehensive Observation Services

APC 8011 · Hospital outpatient visit

43 $19,484 $2,801 about average
Kidney Failure (severe)

MS-DRG 682 · Inpatient stay

24 $58,586 $22,897 +11%
Urinary Tract Infection (without major complications)

MS-DRG 690 · Inpatient stay

24 $26,061 $13,319 -12%
Psychoses

MS-DRG 885 · Inpatient stay

22 $31,032 $22,452 -14%
Red Blood Cell Disorders without Major Complications

MS-DRG 812 · Inpatient stay

21 $32,308 $14,660 -13%
Level 4 Urology and Related Services

APC 5374 · Hospital outpatient visit

21 $16,260 $3,397 -21%
Fluid and Electrolyte Disorder (without major complications)

MS-DRG 641 · Inpatient stay

20 $35,693 $12,863 +17%
Infection Needing Surgery (severe)

MS-DRG 853 · Inpatient stay

20 $183,049 $72,695 about average
Sepsis

MS-DRG 870 · Inpatient stay

20 $293,325 $96,078 +9%
Heart Attack (severe)

MS-DRG 280 · Inpatient stay

19 $86,346 $27,932 +41%
Gastrointestinal Bleeding (with complications)

MS-DRG 378 · Inpatient stay

19 $40,562 $15,790 about average
Kidney Failure (with complications)

MS-DRG 683 · Inpatient stay

19 $33,118 $16,090 about average
Level 3 Urology and Related Services

APC 5373 · Hospital outpatient visit

19 $13,994 $1,974 +8%
Level 1 Endovascular Procedures

APC 5191 · Hospital outpatient visit

18 $27,292 $3,340 +8%
COPD (severe)

MS-DRG 190 · Inpatient stay

17 $73,757 $20,144 +76%
Fluid and Electrolyte Disorder (severe)

MS-DRG 640 · Inpatient stay

17 $37,165 $20,378 -23%
Sepsis (without major complications)

MS-DRG 872 · Inpatient stay

17 $37,889 $17,042 -3%
Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage

APC 5072 · Hospital outpatient visit

16 $6,057 $1,659 -40%
Diabetes (with complications)

MS-DRG 638 · Inpatient stay

15 $32,279 $15,871 -7%
Stroke (severe)

MS-DRG 064 · Inpatient stay

14 $110,370 $34,933 +45%
Fainting

MS-DRG 312 · Inpatient stay

14 $42,135 $14,844 +15%
Stroke (with complications)

MS-DRG 065 · Inpatient stay

13 $52,451 $15,849 +15%
Pneumonia (severe)

MS-DRG 193 · Inpatient stay

13 $44,210 $20,175 -5%
Chest Pain

MS-DRG 313 · Inpatient stay

13 $22,342 $11,112 -34%
Gastrointestinal Bleeding (severe)

MS-DRG 377 · Inpatient stay

13 $77,289 $30,672 +9%
COPD (with complications)

MS-DRG 191 · Inpatient stay

13 $30,832 $13,910 -7%
Alcohol, Drug Abuse or Dependence without Rehabilitation Therapy without Major

MS-DRG 897 · Inpatient stay

13 $21,782 $13,602 -33%
Level 2 Intraocular Procedures

APC 5492 · Hospital outpatient visit

13 $15,448 $3,914 -25%
Respiratory Failure

MS-DRG 189 · Inpatient stay

12 $93,583 $21,715 +93%
Red Blood Cell Disorders with Major Complications

MS-DRG 811 · Inpatient stay

12 $31,884 $21,455 -43%
Level 3 Vascular Procedures

APC 5183 · Hospital outpatient visit

12 $14,461 $3,261 -24%
Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures

APC 5112 · Hospital outpatient visit

11 $7,933 $1,644 -29%

These figures are averages across this hospital's Medicare patients in the most recent federal data year. They are not a quote and not your bill. For your own case, ask the hospital for a written good-faith estimate and check its published machine-readable price file.