71/100
#618 nationally
Mercy Medical Center - Cedar Rapids
701 10Th Street Se, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403 · (319) 398-6011
Charges moderately above what care is paid for
For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Mercy Medical Center - Cedar Rapids billed $3.93 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
- 3.9x
- volume-weighted across all its priced work
- Procedures priced
- 107
- inpatient and outpatient combined
- Rank in IA
- #16
- 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 60% of U.S. hospitals.
Better than 76% of U.S. hospitals.
Better than 81% of U.S. hospitals.
Better than 64% 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 |
650 | $16,446 | $2,349 | -15% |
|
Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures
APC 5115 · Hospital outpatient visit |
386 | $42,241 | $11,286 | -32% |
|
Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage
APC 5072 · Hospital outpatient visit |
286 | $6,418 | $1,384 | -36% |
|
Level 1 Endovascular Procedures
APC 5191 · Hospital outpatient visit |
247 | $20,055 | $2,806 | -21% |
|
Level 3 Lower GI Procedures
APC 5313 · Hospital outpatient visit |
200 | $9,093 | $2,419 | -45% |
|
Level 2 Upper GI Procedures
APC 5302 · Hospital outpatient visit |
199 | $8,356 | $1,641 | -29% |
|
Level 5 Urology and Related Services
APC 5375 · Hospital outpatient visit |
172 | $14,666 | $4,441 | -47% |
|
Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services
APC 5361 · Hospital outpatient visit |
147 | $22,938 | $4,923 | -35% |
|
Level 4 Urology and Related Services
APC 5374 · Hospital outpatient visit |
135 | $10,857 | $3,006 | -47% |
|
Heart Failure (severe)
MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay |
131 | $25,856 | $9,016 | -40% |
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 2 Urology and Related Services
APC 5372 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$6,898 | $589 | +120% |
|
Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures
APC 5112 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$10,877 | $1,386 | -3% |
|
Level 2 Endovascular Procedures
APC 5192 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$32,921 | $4,842 | -5% |
|
Level 4 Gynecologic Procedures
APC 5414 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$15,986 | $2,696 | -12% |
|
Comprehensive Observation Services
APC 8011 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$16,446 | $2,349 | -15% |
|
Carotid Artery Stent Procedures without Complications/mcc
MS-DRG 036 · Inpatient stay |
$59,459 | $12,505 | -16% |
|
Digestive Disorder (severe)
MS-DRG 391 · Inpatient stay |
$42,973 | $9,119 | -16% |
|
Level 4 Airway Endoscopy
APC 5154 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$18,780 | $3,168 | -17% |
Where it charges least relative to everyone else
| Procedure | Charged | Actually paid | vs national |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Level 3 Airway Endoscopy
APC 5153 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$2,846 | $1,464 | -75% |
|
Pneumothorax with Complications
MS-DRG 200 · Inpatient stay |
$15,224 | $7,892 | -68% |
|
Fractures of Hip and Pelvis without Major Complications
MS-DRG 536 · Inpatient stay |
$10,995 | $5,560 | -66% |
|
Other Vascular Procedures with Complications
MS-DRG 253 · Inpatient stay |
$39,363 | $17,378 | -65% |
|
Level 1 Nerve Procedures
APC 5431 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$4,393 | $1,665 | -61% |
|
Craniotomy and Endovascular Intracranial Procedures with Major Complications
MS-DRG 025 · Inpatient stay |
$74,715 | $27,313 | -61% |
|
Cardiac Valve and Other Major Cardiothoracic Procedures without Cardiac Catheterization
MS-DRG 220 · Inpatient stay |
$95,418 | $35,094 | -59% |
|
Irregular Heartbeat (severe)
MS-DRG 308 · Inpatient stay |
$22,039 | $8,546 | -53% |
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.