CostGrade
B

78/100

#401 nationally

Johns Hopkins Hospital, The

600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287 · (410) 955-9540

Charges moderately above what care is paid for

For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Johns Hopkins Hospital, The billed $1.13 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
242
inpatient and outpatient combined
Rank in MD
#38
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.

Inpatient charge markup 33.3/35

Better than 95% of U.S. hospitals.

Outpatient charge markup 12.5/25

Not published for this hospital — scored at 50% of the component rather than zero, because an absent figure is not a bad one.

Price level vs national median 26.6/30

Better than 89% of U.S. hospitals.

Price consistency 5.9/10

Better than 59% 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

351 $53,504 $47,303 -18%
Heart Failure (severe)

MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay

247 $46,420 $40,877 +7%
Endovascular Cardiac Valve Replacement and Supplement Procedures without Major

MS-DRG 267 · Inpatient stay

176 $64,014 $57,193 -66%
Psychoses

MS-DRG 885 · Inpatient stay

172 $71,526 $63,030 +98%
Craniotomy and Endovascular Intracranial Procedures with Major Complications

MS-DRG 025 · Inpatient stay

151 $67,658 $59,772 -65%
Percutaneous and Other Intracardiac Procedures without Major Complications

MS-DRG 274 · Inpatient stay

124 $40,891 $36,600 -67%
Respiratory Infection (severe)

MS-DRG 177 · Inpatient stay

112 $38,589 $34,484 -30%
Respiratory Failure

MS-DRG 189 · Inpatient stay

107 $39,734 $34,868 -18%
Kidney or Urinary Disorder (with complications)

MS-DRG 699 · Inpatient stay

104 $29,932 $25,908 -21%
Digestive Disorder (without major complications)

MS-DRG 392 · Inpatient stay

102 $18,152 $16,112 -44%

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
Psychoses

MS-DRG 885 · Inpatient stay

$71,526 $63,030 +98%
Coagulation Disorders

MS-DRG 813 · Inpatient stay

$100,204 $88,657 +50%
Reticuloendothelial and Immunity Disorders with Complications

MS-DRG 815 · Inpatient stay

$95,059 $84,324 +26%
Urinary Tract Infection (severe)

MS-DRG 689 · Inpatient stay

$49,699 $43,633 +22%
Reticuloendothelial and Immunity Disorders with Major Complications

MS-DRG 814 · Inpatient stay

$144,232 $124,962 +17%
Postoperative and Post-traumatic Infections with Major Complications

MS-DRG 862 · Inpatient stay

$85,130 $75,149 +15%
Stroke (severe)

MS-DRG 064 · Inpatient stay

$83,466 $72,120 +9%
Heart Failure (severe)

MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay

$46,420 $40,877 +7%

Where it charges least relative to everyone else

Procedure Charged Actually paid vs national
Lung Transplant

MS-DRG 007 · Inpatient stay

$251,443 $220,197 -73%
Chemotherapy without Acute Leukemia as Secondary Diagnosis with Major Complications

MS-DRG 846 · Inpatient stay

$30,254 $26,783 -72%
Major Bladder Procedures without Complications/mcc

MS-DRG 655 · Inpatient stay

$40,638 $35,698 -71%
Kidney and Ureter Procedures for Neoplasm without Complications/mcc

MS-DRG 658 · Inpatient stay

$22,410 $19,668 -71%
Other Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue Operating Room Procedures with

MS-DRG 516 · Inpatient stay

$25,913 $22,728 -71%
Dysequilibrium

MS-DRG 149 · Inpatient stay

$12,163 $10,678 -69%
Postoperative or Post-traumatic Infections with Operating Room Procedures with Major

MS-DRG 856 · Inpatient stay

$59,650 $52,149 -69%
Major Bladder Procedures with Complications

MS-DRG 654 · Inpatient stay

$46,139 $40,800 -69%

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.
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