Ronald Reagan Ucla Medical Center

757 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 · (310) 825-6301

Charges well above the national norm

For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Ronald Reagan Ucla Medical Center billed $3.67 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.

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Charge-to-payment: 3.7x; volume-weighted across all its priced work
Procedures priced: 189; inpatient and outpatient combined
Rank in CA: #44; 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.

Inpatient charge markup 21.6/35

Better than 62% of U.S. hospitals.

Outpatient charge markup 18.4/25

Better than 74% of U.S. hospitals.

Price level vs national median 5.2/30

Better than 18% of U.S. hospitals.

Price consistency 0.6/10

Better than 6% 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
Level 1 Intraocular Procedures APC 5491 · Hospital outpatient visit	1,990	$10,567	$2,844	-10%
Comprehensive Observation Services APC 8011 · Hospital outpatient visit	780	$28,515	$3,352	+47%
Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage APC 5072 · Hospital outpatient visit	518	$11,777	$1,984	+17%
Level 2 Upper GI Procedures APC 5302 · Hospital outpatient visit	512	$11,601	$2,297	about average
Level 2 Intraocular Procedures APC 5492 · Hospital outpatient visit	473	$20,210	$4,957	about average
Sepsis (severe) MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay	427	$148,388	$42,270	+127%
Level 1 Endovascular Procedures APC 5191 · Hospital outpatient visit	302	$26,306	$3,934	+4%
Level 3 Extraocular, Repair, and Plastic Eye Procedures APC 5503 · Hospital outpatient visit	289	$13,659	$2,849	-6%
Level 3 Electrophysiologic Procedures APC 5213 · Hospital outpatient visit	262	$92,584	$29,114	-30%
Level 5 Urology and Related Services APC 5375 · Hospital outpatient visit	235	$36,780	$6,362	+34%

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
Circulatory Disorders Except Heart Attack, with Cardiac Catheterization with Major MS-DRG 286 · Inpatient stay	$423,792	$108,866	+382%
Level 2 Urology and Related Services APC 5372 · Hospital outpatient visit	$12,649	$840	+303%
Extensive Operating Room Procedures Unrelated to Principal Diagnosis with Major MS-DRG 981 · Inpatient stay	$627,664	$158,720	+242%
Cirrhosis and Alcoholic Hepatitis with Major Complications MS-DRG 432 · Inpatient stay	$264,314	$64,681	+231%
Digestive Disorder (severe) MS-DRG 391 · Inpatient stay	$166,289	$43,264	+224%
Kidney and Ureter Procedures for Non-neoplasm with Major Complications MS-DRG 659 · Inpatient stay	$312,673	$88,086	+218%
Irregular Heartbeat (severe) MS-DRG 308 · Inpatient stay	$145,441	$37,087	+207%
Heart Failure (severe) MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay	$131,874	$33,060	+204%

Where it charges least relative to everyone else

Procedure	Charged	Actually paid	vs national
Level 3 Breast/lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures APC 5093 · Hospital outpatient visit	$44,043	$11,575	-35%
Level 3 Electrophysiologic Procedures APC 5213 · Hospital outpatient visit	$92,584	$29,114	-30%
Lung Transplant MS-DRG 007 · Inpatient stay	$668,301	$229,564	-29%
Level 2 Icd and Similar Procedures APC 5232 · Hospital outpatient visit	$106,779	$40,316	-28%
Level 7 Radiation Therapy APC 5627 · Hospital outpatient visit	$42,631	$9,568	-28%
Complex GI Procedures APC 5331 · Hospital outpatient visit	$21,924	$6,915	-27%
Level 3 Lower GI Procedures APC 5313 · Hospital outpatient visit	$12,604	$3,419	-24%
Level 4 Pacemaker and Similar Procedures APC 5224 · Hospital outpatient visit	$74,095	$23,891	-22%

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: 050262
Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Ownership: Government - State
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.