84/100
#231 nationally
Medstar Southern Maryland Hospital Center
7503 Surratts Road, Clinton, MD 20735 · (301) 868-8000
Charges close to what care is actually paid for
For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Medstar Southern Maryland Hospital Center 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
- 1.0x
- volume-weighted across all its priced work
- Procedures priced
- 64
- inpatient and outpatient combined
- Rank in MD
- #19
- 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.
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 |
303 | $25,449 | $24,277 | -61% |
|
Heart Failure (severe)
MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay |
153 | $16,949 | $16,170 | -61% |
|
Heart Attack (severe)
MS-DRG 280 · Inpatient stay |
119 | $23,033 | $22,001 | -62% |
|
Psychoses
MS-DRG 885 · Inpatient stay |
103 | $22,312 | $21,531 | -38% |
|
Respiratory Failure
MS-DRG 189 · Inpatient stay |
86 | $20,143 | $18,928 | -58% |
|
Sepsis (without major complications)
MS-DRG 872 · Inpatient stay |
79 | $16,210 | $15,462 | -59% |
|
Stroke (with complications)
MS-DRG 065 · Inpatient stay |
77 | $14,540 | $13,594 | -68% |
|
Heart Attack (with complications)
MS-DRG 281 · Inpatient stay |
63 | $13,009 | $12,356 | -70% |
|
Fluid and Electrolyte Disorder (severe)
MS-DRG 640 · Inpatient stay |
55 | $19,421 | $18,328 | -60% |
|
Kidney or Urinary Disorder (severe)
MS-DRG 698 · Inpatient stay |
46 | $25,915 | $25,474 | -54% |
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 |
$22,312 | $21,531 | -38% |
|
Other Circulatory System Diagnoses with Major Complications
MS-DRG 314 · Inpatient stay |
$38,648 | $34,506 | -51% |
|
Diabetes (with complications)
MS-DRG 638 · Inpatient stay |
$17,009 | $16,753 | -51% |
|
Signs and Symptoms without Major Complications
MS-DRG 948 · Inpatient stay |
$15,255 | $15,098 | -53% |
|
Kidney or Urinary Disorder (severe)
MS-DRG 698 · Inpatient stay |
$25,915 | $25,474 | -54% |
|
Pneumonia (severe)
MS-DRG 193 · Inpatient stay |
$20,445 | $19,000 | -56% |
|
Fluid and Electrolyte Disorder (without major complications)
MS-DRG 641 · Inpatient stay |
$13,381 | $12,789 | -56% |
|
Fainting
MS-DRG 312 · Inpatient stay |
$15,629 | $15,388 | -57% |
Where it charges least relative to everyone else
| Procedure | Charged | Actually paid | vs national |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Other Major Cardiovascular Procedures with Major Complications
MS-DRG 270 · Inpatient stay |
$42,104 | $40,536 | -81% |
|
Heart Catheter Procedure (without major complications)
MS-DRG 322 · Inpatient stay |
$22,077 | $21,901 | -78% |
|
Respiratory Neoplasms with Major Complications
MS-DRG 180 · Inpatient stay |
$16,224 | $15,481 | -78% |
|
Heart Catheter Procedure (severe)
MS-DRG 321 · Inpatient stay |
$32,630 | $31,243 | -77% |
|
Infection Needing Surgery (with complications)
MS-DRG 854 · Inpatient stay |
$18,967 | $18,535 | -77% |
|
Circulatory Disorders Except Heart Attack, with Cardiac Catheterization without Major
MS-DRG 287 · Inpatient stay |
$12,725 | $12,033 | -77% |
|
Irregular Heartbeat (uncomplicated)
MS-DRG 310 · Inpatient stay |
$5,962 | $5,574 | -76% |
|
Heart Attack (uncomplicated)
MS-DRG 282 · Inpatient stay |
$9,191 | $8,818 | -76% |
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.