Swedish Medical Center / Cherry Hill

500 17Th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122 · (206) 320-2000

Charges well above the national norm

For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Swedish Medical Center / Cherry Hill billed $4.70 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 72 prices How we grade

Charge-to-payment: 4.7x; volume-weighted across all its priced work
Procedures priced: 72; inpatient and outpatient combined
Rank in WA: #23; 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 12.4/35

Better than 35% of U.S. hospitals.

Outpatient charge markup 19.0/25

Better than 76% of U.S. hospitals.

Price level vs national median 10.6/30

Better than 35% of U.S. hospitals.

Price consistency 3.1/10

Better than 31% 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 Endovascular Procedures APC 5191 · Hospital outpatient visit	283	$16,444	$3,462	-35%
Endovascular Cardiac Valve Replacement and Supplement Procedures with Major Complications MS-DRG 266 · Inpatient stay	273	$273,417	$64,113	+14%
Level 3 Electrophysiologic Procedures APC 5213 · Hospital outpatient visit	178	$105,432	$25,379	-21%
Percutaneous and Other Intracardiac Procedures without Major Complications MS-DRG 274 · Inpatient stay	123	$133,104	$31,995	+7%
Heart Failure (severe) MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay	121	$63,088	$13,848	+45%
Level 3 Endovascular Procedures APC 5193 · Hospital outpatient visit	90	$76,491	$11,548	+13%
Craniotomy and Endovascular Intracranial Procedures with Major Complications MS-DRG 025 · Inpatient stay	84	$206,978	$50,354	+8%
Stroke (severe) MS-DRG 064 · Inpatient stay	81	$90,351	$20,839	+18%
Level 3 Pacemaker and Similar Procedures APC 5223 · Hospital outpatient visit	69	$26,459	$11,286	-49%
Stroke (with complications) MS-DRG 065 · Inpatient stay	66	$46,114	$11,795	about average

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
Coronary Bypass without Cardiac Catheterization without Major Complications MS-DRG 236 · Inpatient stay	$389,873	$58,654	+113%
Seizures with Major Complications MS-DRG 100 · Inpatient stay	$163,824	$26,341	+103%
Coronary Bypass without Cardiac Catheterization with Major Complications MS-DRG 235 · Inpatient stay	$470,464	$81,730	+96%
Cardiac Valve and Other Major Cardiothoracic Procedures without Cardiac Catheterization MS-DRG 220 · Inpatient stay	$443,909	$81,579	+90%
Cardiac Valve and Other Major Cardiothoracic Procedures without Cardiac Catheterization MS-DRG 219 · Inpatient stay	$583,011	$110,979	+74%
Major Chest Procedures with Major Complications MS-DRG 163 · Inpatient stay	$297,890	$68,354	+69%
Coronary Intravascular Lithotripsy with Intraluminal Device without Major Complications MS-DRG 324 · Inpatient stay	$247,629	$32,493	+56%
Coronary Intravascular Lithotripsy with Intraluminal Device with Major Complications MS-DRG 323 · Inpatient stay	$321,930	$39,739	+51%

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	$26,459	$11,286	-49%
Level 2 Icd and Similar Procedures APC 5232 · Hospital outpatient visit	$92,273	$34,260	-38%
Level 1 Endovascular Procedures APC 5191 · Hospital outpatient visit	$16,444	$3,462	-35%
Level 1 Icd and Similar Procedures APC 5231 · Hospital outpatient visit	$63,082	$25,188	-33%
Level 2 Electrophysiologic Procedures APC 5212 · Hospital outpatient visit	$30,138	$8,002	-32%
Percutaneous and Other Intracardiac Procedures with Major Complications MS-DRG 273 · Inpatient stay	$130,198	$37,287	-30%
Level 7 Radiation Therapy APC 5627 · Hospital outpatient visit	$41,570	$8,343	-30%
Back Problems (without major complications) MS-DRG 552 · Inpatient stay	$29,211	$9,786	-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.

Lower markups near Seattle

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University Of Washington Medical Ctr
3.8x · Seattle, WA
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Virginia Mason Medical Center
4.1x · Seattle, WA
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Harborview Medical Center
4.2x · Seattle, WA
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Swedish Medical Center
5.2x · Seattle, WA

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The record

CMS provider number: 500025
Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Church
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.