Medstar Union Memorial Hospital

201 East University Parkway, Baltimore, MD 21218 · (410) 554-2227

Charges close to what care is actually paid for

For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Medstar Union Memorial Hospital billed $1.14 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 98 prices How we grade

Charge-to-payment: 1.1x; volume-weighted across all its priced work
Procedures priced: 98; inpatient and outpatient combined
Rank in MD: #20; 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 28.5/30

Better than 95% of U.S. hospitals.

Price consistency 9.4/10

Better than 94% 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	245	$33,253	$28,994	-49%
Heart Failure (severe) MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay	185	$27,174	$23,449	-37%
Endovascular Cardiac Valve Replacement and Supplement Procedures without Major MS-DRG 267 · Inpatient stay	119	$54,181	$48,240	-71%
Circulatory Disorders Except Heart Attack, with Cardiac Catheterization with Major MS-DRG 286 · Inpatient stay	113	$35,971	$31,410	-59%
Hip or Knee Replacement (without major complications) MS-DRG 470 · Inpatient stay	101	$31,513	$28,000	-61%
Heart Attack (severe) MS-DRG 280 · Inpatient stay	95	$32,271	$28,244	-47%
Spinal Fusion Except Cervical without Major Complications MS-DRG 460 · Inpatient stay	60	$55,732	$49,382	-62%
Respiratory Failure MS-DRG 189 · Inpatient stay	56	$28,258	$24,494	-42%
Percutaneous and Other Intracardiac Procedures without Major Complications MS-DRG 274 · Inpatient stay	54	$33,843	$30,187	-73%
Sepsis (without major complications) MS-DRG 872 · Inpatient stay	50	$17,877	$15,898	-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
Other Circulatory System Diagnoses with Major Complications MS-DRG 314 · Inpatient stay	$55,273	$46,946	-29%
COPD (severe) MS-DRG 190 · Inpatient stay	$28,311	$21,591	-32%
Irregular Heartbeat (severe) MS-DRG 308 · Inpatient stay	$31,424	$27,861	-34%
Kidney Failure (with complications) MS-DRG 683 · Inpatient stay	$20,837	$18,578	-37%
Heart Failure (severe) MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay	$27,174	$23,449	-37%
Respiratory Failure MS-DRG 189 · Inpatient stay	$28,258	$24,494	-42%
Gastrointestinal Bleeding (severe) MS-DRG 377 · Inpatient stay	$40,260	$35,546	-43%
Gastrointestinal Obstruction with Complications MS-DRG 389 · Inpatient stay	$17,423	$14,632	-44%

Where it charges least relative to everyone else

Procedure	Charged	Actually paid	vs national
Heart Catheter Procedure (severe) MS-DRG 321 · Inpatient stay	$27,491	$24,584	-81%
Heart Catheter Procedure (without major complications) MS-DRG 322 · Inpatient stay	$19,584	$17,619	-81%
Other Cardiothoracic Procedures without Major Complications MS-DRG 229 · Inpatient stay	$35,518	$32,319	-77%
Aftercare with Complications/mcc MS-DRG 949 · Inpatient stay	$8,884	$7,885	-76%
Other Major Cardiovascular Procedures with Major Complications MS-DRG 270 · Inpatient stay	$58,010	$51,600	-74%
Permanent Cardiac Pacemaker Implant without Complications/mcc MS-DRG 244 · Inpatient stay	$20,245	$18,117	-73%
Combined Anterior and Posterior Spinal Fusion with Complications MS-DRG 454 · Inpatient stay	$60,068	$54,187	-73%
Heart Attack (with complications) MS-DRG 281 · Inpatient stay	$11,863	$10,547	-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.

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The record

CMS provider number: 210024
Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Other
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.