Keck Hospital Of Usc

1500 San Pablo Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033 · (323) 442-8656

Charges far above the national norm

For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Keck Hospital Of Usc billed $4.63 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.

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Charge-to-payment: 4.6x; volume-weighted across all its priced work
Procedures priced: 161; inpatient and outpatient combined
Rank in CA: #82; 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 14.8/35

Better than 42% of U.S. hospitals.

Outpatient charge markup 13.8/25

Better than 55% of U.S. hospitals.

Price level vs national median 5.4/30

Better than 18% of U.S. hospitals.

Price consistency 1.7/10

Better than 17% 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
Level 1 Intraocular Procedures APC 5491 · Hospital outpatient visit	624	$13,505	$2,856	+15%
Level 2 Upper GI Procedures APC 5302 · Hospital outpatient visit	465	$18,896	$2,327	+61%
Level 3 Airway Endoscopy APC 5153 · Hospital outpatient visit	357	$10,616	$2,074	-7%
Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures APC 5115 · Hospital outpatient visit	303	$100,189	$15,956	+60%
Level 1 Endovascular Procedures APC 5191 · Hospital outpatient visit	292	$25,608	$3,993	about average
Level 2 Intraocular Procedures APC 5492 · Hospital outpatient visit	241	$21,960	$4,972	+6%
Level 1 Nerve Procedures APC 5431 · Hospital outpatient visit	232	$13,899	$2,369	+22%
Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage APC 5072 · Hospital outpatient visit	213	$14,602	$1,950	+45%
Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures APC 5114 · Hospital outpatient visit	202	$51,446	$8,763	+29%
Level 4 Airway Endoscopy APC 5154 · Hospital outpatient visit	184	$28,700	$4,589	+26%

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 2 Urology and Related Services APC 5372 · Hospital outpatient visit	$11,688	$779	+273%
Respiratory Infection (severe) MS-DRG 177 · Inpatient stay	$174,089	$29,336	+216%
Other Digestive System Diagnoses with Complications MS-DRG 394 · Inpatient stay	$120,371	$23,468	+210%
Circulatory Disorders Except Heart Attack, with Cardiac Catheterization with Major MS-DRG 286 · Inpatient stay	$268,594	$61,458	+205%
Cirrhosis and Alcoholic Hepatitis with Major Complications MS-DRG 432 · Inpatient stay	$225,645	$46,753	+182%
Sepsis (severe) MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay	$173,762	$37,233	+166%
Infection Needing Surgery (severe) MS-DRG 853 · Inpatient stay	$468,937	$105,470	+164%
Postoperative and Post-traumatic Infections with Major Complications MS-DRG 862 · Inpatient stay	$186,672	$44,016	+152%

Where it charges least relative to everyone else

Procedure	Charged	Actually paid	vs national
Other Male Reproductive System Operating Room Procedures Except Malignancy with MS-DRG 717 · Inpatient stay	$115,176	$24,777	-28%
Level 3 Electrophysiologic Procedures APC 5213 · Hospital outpatient visit	$111,285	$29,114	-16%
Kidney Transplant with Hemodialysis with Major Complications MS-DRG 650 · Inpatient stay	$331,820	$61,436	-9%
Level 4 Endovascular Procedures APC 5194 · Hospital outpatient visit	$87,435	$17,014	-8%
Level 3 Airway Endoscopy APC 5153 · Hospital outpatient visit	$10,616	$2,074	-7%
Kidney Transplant with Hemodialysis without Major Complications MS-DRG 651 · Inpatient stay	$313,683	$46,598	-5%
Cochlear Implant Procedure APC 5166 · Hospital outpatient visit	$117,120	$41,094	-4%
Percutaneous and Other Intracardiac Procedures without Major Complications MS-DRG 274 · Inpatient stay	$122,054	$40,390	about average

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.

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The record

CMS provider number: 050696
Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Other
Emergency department: No
Setting: Metropolitan area core: primary flow within an urbanized area of 50,000 and greater

Source: CMS Medicare Inpatient and Outpatient utilisation files and Hospital General Information. See the files.