84/100
#230 nationally
Medstar Saint Mary's Hospital
25500 Point Lookout Road, Leonardtown, MD 20650 · (301) 475-6001
Charges close to what care is actually paid for
For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Medstar Saint Mary's Hospital billed $1.05 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
- 40
- inpatient and outpatient combined
- Rank in MD
- #18
- lower markup ranks higher
- CMS quality stars
- 4/5
- 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 |
267 | $20,855 | $19,845 | -68% |
|
Heart Failure (severe)
MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay |
132 | $16,064 | $15,306 | -63% |
|
Respiratory Failure
MS-DRG 189 · Inpatient stay |
84 | $19,740 | $18,870 | -59% |
|
Sepsis (without major complications)
MS-DRG 872 · Inpatient stay |
64 | $13,428 | $12,741 | -66% |
|
Major Joint or Limb Reattachment Procedures of Upper Extremities
MS-DRG 483 · Inpatient stay |
55 | $31,233 | $29,396 | -70% |
|
Pneumonia (severe)
MS-DRG 193 · Inpatient stay |
43 | $17,122 | $16,076 | -63% |
|
Psychoses
MS-DRG 885 · Inpatient stay |
38 | $17,550 | $16,814 | -51% |
|
Respiratory Infection (severe)
MS-DRG 177 · Inpatient stay |
34 | $18,194 | $16,844 | -67% |
|
Urinary Tract Infection (without major complications)
MS-DRG 690 · Inpatient stay |
33 | $11,874 | $11,457 | -60% |
|
COPD (severe)
MS-DRG 190 · Inpatient stay |
31 | $17,451 | $16,375 | -58% |
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 |
$17,550 | $16,814 | -51% |
|
Kidney Failure (with complications)
MS-DRG 683 · Inpatient stay |
$15,235 | $14,929 | -54% |
|
Skin Infection (without major complications)
MS-DRG 603 · Inpatient stay |
$13,904 | $13,271 | -54% |
|
Pneumonia (with complications)
MS-DRG 194 · Inpatient stay |
$14,454 | $12,614 | -54% |
|
Fluid and Electrolyte Disorder (without major complications)
MS-DRG 641 · Inpatient stay |
$13,564 | $13,108 | -56% |
|
Respiratory Infection (with complications)
MS-DRG 178 · Inpatient stay |
$16,451 | $16,291 | -56% |
|
COPD (severe)
MS-DRG 190 · Inpatient stay |
$17,451 | $16,375 | -58% |
|
Irregular Heartbeat (with complications)
MS-DRG 309 · Inpatient stay |
$12,617 | $11,336 | -59% |
Where it charges least relative to everyone else
| Procedure | Charged | Actually paid | vs national |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Infection Needing Surgery (severe)
MS-DRG 853 · Inpatient stay |
$32,476 | $31,814 | -82% |
|
Infection Needing Surgery (with complications)
MS-DRG 854 · Inpatient stay |
$16,908 | $16,227 | -80% |
|
Ischemic Stroke, Precerebral Occlusion or Transient Ischemia with Thrombolytic Agent Wit
MS-DRG 062 · Inpatient stay |
$19,626 | $17,517 | -79% |
|
Gastrointestinal Bleeding (severe)
MS-DRG 377 · Inpatient stay |
$15,181 | $14,161 | -79% |
|
Heart Attack (severe)
MS-DRG 280 · Inpatient stay |
$14,046 | $13,304 | -77% |
|
Stroke (uncomplicated)
MS-DRG 066 · Inpatient stay |
$8,611 | $8,038 | -76% |
|
Heart Attack (with complications)
MS-DRG 281 · Inpatient stay |
$11,309 | $10,411 | -74% |
|
Gastrointestinal Obstruction with Complications
MS-DRG 389 · Inpatient stay |
$8,400 | $8,133 | -73% |
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.