84/100
#247 nationally
Umd Upper Chesapeake Medical Center
500 Upper Chesapeake Drive, Bel Air, MD 21014 · (443) 643-3303
Charges close to what care is actually paid for
For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Umd Upper Chesapeake Medical Center billed $1.11 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
- 117
- inpatient and outpatient combined
- Rank in MD
- #26
- lower markup ranks higher
- CMS quality stars
- 2/5
- 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 |
841 | $20,940 | $18,839 | -68% |
|
Heart Failure (severe)
MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay |
308 | $16,499 | $14,856 | -62% |
|
Sepsis (without major complications)
MS-DRG 872 · Inpatient stay |
131 | $12,131 | $10,960 | -69% |
|
Respiratory Failure
MS-DRG 189 · Inpatient stay |
125 | $20,191 | $18,237 | -58% |
|
Gastrointestinal Bleeding (with complications)
MS-DRG 378 · Inpatient stay |
118 | $13,935 | $12,603 | -66% |
|
Digestive Disorder (without major complications)
MS-DRG 392 · Inpatient stay |
111 | $10,800 | $9,731 | -67% |
|
Stroke (with complications)
MS-DRG 065 · Inpatient stay |
109 | $11,900 | $10,828 | -74% |
|
COPD (severe)
MS-DRG 190 · Inpatient stay |
105 | $15,964 | $14,340 | -62% |
|
Urinary Tract Infection (without major complications)
MS-DRG 690 · Inpatient stay |
104 | $10,341 | $9,375 | -65% |
|
Pneumonia (severe)
MS-DRG 193 · Inpatient stay |
89 | $15,180 | $13,554 | -67% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Skin Infection (severe)
MS-DRG 602 · Inpatient stay |
$45,692 | $42,189 | -11% |
|
Fluid and Electrolyte Disorder (severe)
MS-DRG 640 · Inpatient stay |
$32,334 | $29,161 | -33% |
|
Back Problems (severe)
MS-DRG 551 · Inpatient stay |
$39,595 | $34,725 | -43% |
|
Diabetes with Major Complications
MS-DRG 637 · Inpatient stay |
$31,750 | $29,069 | -44% |
|
Cervical Spinal Fusion with Complications
MS-DRG 472 · Inpatient stay |
$65,813 | $59,659 | -45% |
|
Spinal Fusion Except Cervical without Major Complications
MS-DRG 460 · Inpatient stay |
$74,677 | $66,570 | -48% |
|
Poisoning and Toxic Effects of Drugs with Major Complications
MS-DRG 917 · Inpatient stay |
$32,623 | $29,078 | -52% |
|
Carotid Artery Stent Procedures without Complications/mcc
MS-DRG 036 · Inpatient stay |
$32,379 | $29,332 | -54% |
Where it charges least relative to everyone else
| Procedure | Charged | Actually paid | vs national |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Heart Catheter Procedure (severe)
MS-DRG 321 · Inpatient stay |
$24,573 | $22,613 | -83% |
|
Respiratory System Diagnosis with Ventilator Support <=96 Hours
MS-DRG 208 · Inpatient stay |
$19,488 | $17,672 | -83% |
|
Heart Catheter Procedure (without major complications)
MS-DRG 322 · Inpatient stay |
$19,035 | $17,487 | -81% |
|
Other Major Cardiovascular Procedures with Major Complications
MS-DRG 270 · Inpatient stay |
$46,165 | $41,281 | -79% |
|
Seizures without Major Complications
MS-DRG 101 · Inpatient stay |
$8,864 | $8,080 | -78% |
|
Other Disorders of Nervous System with Complications
MS-DRG 092 · Inpatient stay |
$10,364 | $9,283 | -77% |
|
Dysequilibrium
MS-DRG 149 · Inpatient stay |
$9,273 | $8,469 | -76% |
|
Organic Disturbances and Intellectual Disability
MS-DRG 884 · Inpatient stay |
$12,154 | $11,006 | -76% |
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.