24/100
#2,071 nationally
Ucsf Medical Center
505 Parnassus Ave, Box 0296, San Francisco, CA 94143 · (415) 353-2733
Charges far above the national norm
For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Ucsf Medical Center billed $5.31 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
- 5.3x
- volume-weighted across all its priced work
- Procedures priced
- 292
- inpatient and outpatient combined
- Rank in CA
- #145
- 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 30% of U.S. hospitals.
Better than 44% of U.S. hospitals.
Better than 7% of U.S. hospitals.
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 2 Urology and Related Services
APC 5372 · Hospital outpatient visit |
2,215 | $5,723 | $958 | +82% |
|
Level 3 Urology and Related Services
APC 5373 · Hospital outpatient visit |
1,293 | $12,054 | $2,853 | -7% |
|
Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage
APC 5072 · Hospital outpatient visit |
831 | $15,859 | $2,271 | +57% |
|
Level 1 Intraocular Procedures
APC 5491 · Hospital outpatient visit |
795 | $34,541 | $3,268 | +194% |
|
Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage
APC 5073 · Hospital outpatient visit |
699 | $26,258 | $3,986 | +48% |
|
Comprehensive Observation Services
APC 8011 · Hospital outpatient visit |
624 | $43,574 | $3,817 | +124% |
|
Sepsis (severe)
MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay |
558 | $245,418 | $43,403 | +276% |
|
Level 2 Upper GI Procedures
APC 5302 · Hospital outpatient visit |
485 | $20,460 | $2,672 | +74% |
|
Level 5 Urology and Related Services
APC 5375 · Hospital outpatient visit |
469 | $64,659 | $7,286 | +135% |
|
Level 4 Airway Endoscopy
APC 5154 · Hospital outpatient visit |
441 | $44,332 | $5,246 | +95% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Psychoses
MS-DRG 885 · Inpatient stay |
$211,933 | $37,636 | +487% |
|
Major Hematological and Immunological Diagnoses Except Sickle Cell Crisis and Coagulatio
MS-DRG 809 · Inpatient stay |
$248,179 | $48,446 | +351% |
|
Acute Myocardial Infarction, Expired with Major Complications
MS-DRG 283 · Inpatient stay |
$323,589 | $57,823 | +280% |
|
Sepsis (severe)
MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay |
$245,418 | $43,403 | +276% |
|
Pathological Fractures and Musculoskeletal and Connective Tissue Malignancy with Major
MS-DRG 542 · Inpatient stay |
$254,799 | $56,610 | +272% |
|
Gastrointestinal Obstruction with Major Complications
MS-DRG 388 · Inpatient stay |
$213,274 | $34,688 | +271% |
|
COPD (severe)
MS-DRG 190 · Inpatient stay |
$153,242 | $24,003 | +266% |
|
Heart Failure (severe)
MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay |
$156,962 | $26,634 | +262% |
Where it charges least relative to everyone else
| Procedure | Charged | Actually paid | vs national |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Level 3 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures
APC 5463 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$48,116 | $19,137 | -18% |
|
Level 3 Urology and Related Services
APC 5373 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$12,054 | $2,853 | -7% |
|
Chimeric Antigen Receptor (car) T-cell and Other Immunotherapies
MS-DRG 018 · Inpatient stay |
$1,856,460 | $500,198 | -6% |
|
Level 3 ENT Procedures
APC 5163 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$6,286 | $2,148 | about average |
|
Level 4 Intraocular Procedures
APC 5494 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$138,444 | $17,419 | about average |
|
Level 2 Icd and Similar Procedures
APC 5232 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$150,519 | $46,171 | about average |
|
Level 3 Electrophysiologic Procedures
APC 5213 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$143,801 | $33,341 | +8% |
|
Spinal Procedures with Major Complications
MS-DRG 028 · Inpatient stay |
$311,701 | $90,621 | +13% |
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.