Lovelace Medical Center

601 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Ave Ne, Albuquerque, NM 87102 · (505) 727-8000

Among the highest charge markups in the country

For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Lovelace Medical Center billed $8.41 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.

See all 117 prices How we grade

Charge-to-payment: 8.4x; volume-weighted across all its priced work
Procedures priced: 117; inpatient and outpatient combined
Rank in NM: #13; lower markup ranks higher
CMS quality stars: 2/5; 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 3.0/35

Better than 9% of U.S. hospitals.

Outpatient charge markup 7.3/25

Better than 29% of U.S. hospitals.

Price level vs national median 5.2/30

Better than 17% of U.S. hospitals.

Price consistency 2.2/10

Better than 22% 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 3 Electrophysiologic Procedures APC 5213 · Hospital outpatient visit	338	$115,847	$20,797	-13%
Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures APC 5115 · Hospital outpatient visit	332	$101,925	$11,307	+63%
Level 1 Endovascular Procedures APC 5191 · Hospital outpatient visit	279	$32,873	$2,852	+30%
Level 2 Intraocular Procedures APC 5492 · Hospital outpatient visit	221	$39,063	$3,521	+89%
Comprehensive Observation Services APC 8011 · Hospital outpatient visit	193	$28,606	$2,416	+47%
Sepsis (severe) MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay	188	$137,264	$14,356	+110%
Percutaneous and Other Intracardiac Procedures without Major Complications MS-DRG 274 · Inpatient stay	174	$153,052	$22,630	+23%
Heart Failure (severe) MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay	156	$69,131	$8,953	+59%
Level 3 Endovascular Procedures APC 5193 · Hospital outpatient visit	106	$84,029	$9,653	+24%
Level 2 Upper GI Procedures APC 5302 · Hospital outpatient visit	100	$15,625	$1,675	+33%

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 1 Intraocular Procedures APC 5491 · Hospital outpatient visit	$36,757	$2,063	+213%
Diabetes with Major Complications MS-DRG 637 · Inpatient stay	$169,001	$11,757	+200%
Psychoses MS-DRG 885 · Inpatient stay	$107,325	$10,277	+197%
Level 3 Airway Endoscopy APC 5153 · Hospital outpatient visit	$25,872	$1,502	+127%
Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures APC 5113 · Hospital outpatient visit	$45,066	$2,750	+121%
Kidney Failure (severe) MS-DRG 682 · Inpatient stay	$112,472	$10,121	+112%
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy without C.d.e. with Complications MS-DRG 418 · Inpatient stay	$174,865	$11,457	+112%
Kidney or Urinary Disorder (severe) MS-DRG 698 · Inpatient stay	$120,521	$13,444	+112%

Where it charges least relative to everyone else

Procedure	Charged	Actually paid	vs national
Level 3 Electrophysiologic Procedures APC 5213 · Hospital outpatient visit	$115,847	$20,797	-13%
Other Major Cardiovascular Procedures with Major Complications MS-DRG 270 · Inpatient stay	$218,780	$35,565	about average
Level 2 Vascular Procedures APC 5182 · Hospital outpatient visit	$8,656	$1,418	about average
Aortic and Heart Assist Procedures Except Pulsation Balloon without Major Complications MS-DRG 269 · Inpatient stay	$168,406	$28,536	about average
Level 1 Abdominal/peritoneal/biliary and Related Procedures APC 5341 · Hospital outpatient visit	$24,941	$3,062	+7%
Cardiac Valve and Other Major Cardiothoracic Procedures with Cardiac Catheterization Wit MS-DRG 216 · Inpatient stay	$484,338	$67,385	+9%
Coronary Intravascular Lithotripsy with Intraluminal Device with Major Complications MS-DRG 323 · Inpatient stay	$236,456	$28,781	+11%
Level 3 Vascular Procedures APC 5183 · Hospital outpatient visit	$21,287	$2,732	+11%

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.

Lower markups near Albuquerque

A
Unm Hospital
2.2x · Albuquerque, NM
B
Presbyterian Hospital
3.4x · Albuquerque, NM
F
Lovelace Westside Hospital
8.2x · Albuquerque, NM
F
Lovelace Women's Hospital
10.2x · Albuquerque, NM

Compare with Unm Hospital

The record

CMS provider number: 320009
Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Ownership: Proprietary
Emergency department: Yes
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.