84/100
#243 nationally
Suburban Hospital
8600 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, MD 20814 · (301) 896-2576
Charges close to what care is actually paid for
For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Suburban Hospital billed $1.12 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
- 1.1x
- volume-weighted across all its priced work
- Procedures priced
- 138
- inpatient and outpatient combined
- Rank in MD
- #24
- 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 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 |
652 | $20,973 | $18,709 | -68% |
|
Heart Failure (severe)
MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay |
347 | $15,092 | $13,495 | -65% |
|
Sepsis (without major complications)
MS-DRG 872 · Inpatient stay |
169 | $12,626 | $11,429 | -68% |
|
Psychoses
MS-DRG 885 · Inpatient stay |
128 | $20,329 | $18,075 | -44% |
|
Urinary Tract Infection (without major complications)
MS-DRG 690 · Inpatient stay |
116 | $9,818 | $8,767 | -67% |
|
Respiratory Infection (severe)
MS-DRG 177 · Inpatient stay |
99 | $15,617 | $13,366 | -72% |
|
Respiratory Failure
MS-DRG 189 · Inpatient stay |
95 | $14,698 | $13,098 | -70% |
|
Hip or Thigh Bone Surgery (with complications)
MS-DRG 481 · Inpatient stay |
93 | $20,923 | $18,709 | -75% |
|
Kidney or Urinary Disorder (severe)
MS-DRG 698 · Inpatient stay |
90 | $19,751 | $17,732 | -65% |
|
Fluid and Electrolyte Disorder (without major complications)
MS-DRG 641 · Inpatient stay |
86 | $9,170 | $8,227 | -70% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Heart Attack (severe)
MS-DRG 280 · Inpatient stay |
$35,485 | $31,422 | -42% |
|
Psychoses
MS-DRG 885 · Inpatient stay |
$20,329 | $18,075 | -44% |
|
Disorders of Pancreas Except Malignancy with Major Complications
MS-DRG 438 · Inpatient stay |
$30,865 | $27,340 | -56% |
|
Diabetes with Major Complications
MS-DRG 637 · Inpatient stay |
$24,991 | $22,424 | -56% |
|
Cervical Spinal Fusion with Complications
MS-DRG 472 · Inpatient stay |
$47,345 | $42,790 | -60% |
|
Traumatic Stupor and Coma >1 Hour with Major Complications
MS-DRG 082 · Inpatient stay |
$38,298 | $34,290 | -60% |
|
Spinal Fusion Except Cervical without Major Complications
MS-DRG 460 · Inpatient stay |
$53,900 | $48,679 | -63% |
|
Diabetes (with complications)
MS-DRG 638 · Inpatient stay |
$12,850 | $11,468 | -63% |
Where it charges least relative to everyone else
| Procedure | Charged | Actually paid | vs national |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Heart Catheter Procedure (without major complications)
MS-DRG 322 · Inpatient stay |
$14,448 | $12,906 | -86% |
|
Interstitial Lung Disease with Major Complications
MS-DRG 196 · Inpatient stay |
$11,691 | $10,620 | -85% |
|
Limb Reattachment, Hip and Femur Procedures for Multiple Significant Trauma
MS-DRG 956 · Inpatient stay |
$31,225 | $27,626 | -83% |
|
Digestive Malignancy with Complications
MS-DRG 375 · Inpatient stay |
$9,691 | $8,645 | -82% |
|
Lymphoma and Non-acute Leukemia with Complications
MS-DRG 841 · Inpatient stay |
$17,180 | $15,324 | -81% |
|
Craniotomy and Endovascular Intracranial Procedures with Complications
MS-DRG 026 · Inpatient stay |
$25,774 | $22,949 | -81% |
|
Traumatic Stupor and Coma <1 Hour with Complications
MS-DRG 086 · Inpatient stay |
$10,904 | $9,748 | -81% |
|
Heart Catheter Procedure (severe)
MS-DRG 321 · Inpatient stay |
$28,558 | $26,087 | -80% |
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.