84/100
#249 nationally
University Of Md Baltimore Washington Medical Center
301 Hospital Drive, Glen Burnie, MD 21061 · (410) 595-1967
Charges close to what care is actually paid for
For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, University Of Md Baltimore Washington Medical Center billed $1.08 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
- 120
- inpatient and outpatient combined
- Rank in MD
- #28
- lower markup ranks higher
- CMS quality stars
- 5/5
- 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 |
895 | $26,773 | $24,778 | -59% |
|
Heart Failure (severe)
MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay |
240 | $15,385 | $14,213 | -65% |
|
Respiratory Failure
MS-DRG 189 · Inpatient stay |
127 | $20,311 | $18,789 | -58% |
|
Sepsis (without major complications)
MS-DRG 872 · Inpatient stay |
109 | $12,926 | $11,895 | -67% |
|
Digestive Disorder (without major complications)
MS-DRG 392 · Inpatient stay |
93 | $9,715 | $9,036 | -70% |
|
Infection Needing Surgery (severe)
MS-DRG 853 · Inpatient stay |
89 | $57,532 | $53,353 | -68% |
|
Urinary Tract Infection (without major complications)
MS-DRG 690 · Inpatient stay |
82 | $11,386 | $10,504 | -62% |
|
Stroke (with complications)
MS-DRG 065 · Inpatient stay |
73 | $14,477 | $13,447 | -68% |
|
Kidney Failure (with complications)
MS-DRG 683 · Inpatient stay |
70 | $11,171 | $10,297 | -66% |
|
Gastrointestinal Bleeding (with complications)
MS-DRG 378 · Inpatient stay |
65 | $13,664 | $12,614 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Psychoses
MS-DRG 885 · Inpatient stay |
$35,451 | $32,579 | about average |
|
Endocrine Disorders with Major Complications
MS-DRG 643 · Inpatient stay |
$44,984 | $41,537 | -32% |
|
Alcohol, Drug Abuse or Dependence without Rehabilitation Therapy without Major
MS-DRG 897 · Inpatient stay |
$21,585 | $19,953 | -34% |
|
Degenerative Nervous System Disorders without Major Complications
MS-DRG 057 · Inpatient stay |
$26,672 | $24,794 | -44% |
|
Disorders of Pancreas Except Malignancy with Major Complications
MS-DRG 438 · Inpatient stay |
$36,823 | $34,913 | -47% |
|
Signs and Symptoms without Major Complications
MS-DRG 948 · Inpatient stay |
$16,079 | $14,915 | -50% |
|
Carotid Artery Stent Procedures without Complications/mcc
MS-DRG 036 · Inpatient stay |
$34,096 | $31,558 | -52% |
|
Disorders of Pancreas Except Malignancy with Complications
MS-DRG 439 · Inpatient stay |
$17,046 | $15,892 | -53% |
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 |
$16,228 | $15,059 | -84% |
|
Heart Catheter Procedure (severe)
MS-DRG 321 · Inpatient stay |
$26,782 | $24,990 | -81% |
|
Circulatory Disorders Except Heart Attack, with Cardiac Catheterization with Major
MS-DRG 286 · Inpatient stay |
$18,067 | $16,645 | -79% |
|
Peritoneal Adhesiolysis with Complications
MS-DRG 336 · Inpatient stay |
$22,488 | $20,618 | -77% |
|
Pneumonia (uncomplicated)
MS-DRG 195 · Inpatient stay |
$6,199 | $5,725 | -77% |
|
Postoperative and Post-traumatic Infections with Major Complications
MS-DRG 862 · Inpatient stay |
$17,732 | $16,904 | -76% |
|
Transient Ischemia without Thrombolytic
MS-DRG 069 · Inpatient stay |
$10,039 | $9,295 | -76% |
|
Other Disorders of Nervous System with Major Complications
MS-DRG 091 · Inpatient stay |
$17,365 | $15,988 | -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.