18/100
#2,221 nationally
Memorialcare Long Beach Medical Center
2801 Atlantic Ave, Long Beach, CA 90806 · (562) 933-2000
Among the highest charge markups in the country
For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Memorialcare Long Beach Medical Center billed $7.16 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
- 7.2x
- volume-weighted across all its priced work
- Procedures priced
- 118
- inpatient and outpatient combined
- Rank in CA
- #172
- 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 15% of U.S. hospitals.
Better than 36% of U.S. hospitals.
Better than 8% of U.S. hospitals.
Better than 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Comprehensive Observation Services
APC 8011 · Hospital outpatient visit |
713 | $43,315 | $3,337 | +123% |
|
Sepsis (severe)
MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay |
342 | $166,301 | $21,041 | +155% |
|
Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage
APC 5072 · Hospital outpatient visit |
270 | $14,254 | $1,852 | +41% |
|
Heart Failure (severe)
MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay |
159 | $121,209 | $15,227 | +179% |
|
Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures
APC 5115 · Hospital outpatient visit |
143 | $82,326 | $15,945 | +32% |
|
Level 1 Endovascular Procedures
APC 5191 · Hospital outpatient visit |
110 | $36,644 | $3,937 | +45% |
|
Level 3 Vascular Procedures
APC 5183 · Hospital outpatient visit |
99 | $30,613 | $3,919 | +60% |
|
Level 3 Electrophysiologic Procedures
APC 5213 · Hospital outpatient visit |
96 | $126,928 | $29,114 | -4% |
|
Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures
APC 5114 · Hospital outpatient visit |
67 | $56,439 | $8,792 | +42% |
|
Infection Needing Surgery (severe)
MS-DRG 853 · Inpatient stay |
60 | $457,661 | $59,066 | +157% |
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 3 Airway Endoscopy
APC 5153 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$38,729 | $2,087 | +240% |
|
Other Digestive System Diagnoses with Major Complications
MS-DRG 393 · Inpatient stay |
$204,862 | $22,893 | +219% |
|
Digestive Malignancy with Major Complications
MS-DRG 374 · Inpatient stay |
$268,616 | $32,982 | +212% |
|
Chest Pain
MS-DRG 313 · Inpatient stay |
$104,224 | $10,472 | +209% |
|
Fainting
MS-DRG 312 · Inpatient stay |
$110,525 | $10,593 | +202% |
|
Kidney or Urinary Disorder (severe)
MS-DRG 698 · Inpatient stay |
$169,113 | $17,776 | +198% |
|
Signs and Symptoms without Major Complications
MS-DRG 948 · Inpatient stay |
$94,838 | $9,238 | +192% |
|
Nervous System Neoplasms with Major Complications
MS-DRG 054 · Inpatient stay |
$186,972 | $18,175 | +183% |
Where it charges least relative to everyone else
| Procedure | Charged | Actually paid | vs national |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Level 3 Pacemaker and Similar Procedures
APC 5223 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$46,791 | $13,108 | -9% |
|
Level 3 Electrophysiologic Procedures
APC 5213 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$126,928 | $29,114 | -4% |
|
Level 6 Musculoskeletal Procedures
APC 5116 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$84,765 | $22,035 | about average |
|
Spinal Fusion Except Cervical without Major Complications
MS-DRG 460 · Inpatient stay |
$158,453 | $42,788 | +9% |
|
Combined Anterior and Posterior Spinal Fusion with Complications
MS-DRG 454 · Inpatient stay |
$266,354 | $69,515 | +20% |
|
Percutaneous and Other Intracardiac Procedures without Major Complications
MS-DRG 274 · Inpatient stay |
$151,031 | $38,033 | +21% |
|
Combined Anterior and Posterior Spinal Fusion without Complications/mcc
MS-DRG 455 · Inpatient stay |
$214,764 | $52,048 | +21% |
|
Level 3 Endovascular Procedures
APC 5193 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$84,887 | $13,212 | +25% |
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.