CostGrade

All published prices at Virginia Mason Medical Center

154 procedures, each showing what the hospital billed, what that care was actually paid for, and how the charge compares with the national middle for the same coded work.

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Procedure Patients Charged Actually paid vs national
Level 5 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures

APC 5465 · Hospital outpatient visit

19 $122,848 $31,003 +9%
Level 6 Gynecologic Procedures

APC 5416 · Hospital outpatient visit

19 $41,874 $7,567 about average
Cochlear Implant Procedure

APC 5166 · Hospital outpatient visit

19 $119,651 $33,479 about average
Gastrointestinal Obstruction with Complications

MS-DRG 389 · Inpatient stay

18 $24,841 $8,805 -21%
Kidney and Ureter Procedures for Non-neoplasm with Complications

MS-DRG 660 · Inpatient stay

18 $45,172 $14,073 -19%
Craniotomy and Endovascular Intracranial Procedures with Complications

MS-DRG 026 · Inpatient stay

18 $142,741 $29,530 +6%
Craniotomy and Endovascular Intracranial Procedures without Complications/mcc

MS-DRG 027 · Inpatient stay

18 $133,803 $24,344 +10%
Pneumonia (severe)

MS-DRG 193 · Inpatient stay

17 $53,898 $15,061 +16%
Permanent Cardiac Pacemaker Implant with Complications

MS-DRG 243 · Inpatient stay

17 $108,666 $24,002 +16%
Irregular Heartbeat (with complications)

MS-DRG 309 · Inpatient stay

17 $28,925 $8,065 -6%
Urinary Tract Infection (without major complications)

MS-DRG 690 · Inpatient stay

17 $34,574 $9,410 +16%
Red Blood Cell Disorders without Major Complications

MS-DRG 812 · Inpatient stay

17 $29,219 $9,790 -21%
Disorders of Pancreas Except Malignancy with Complications

MS-DRG 439 · Inpatient stay

17 $50,433 $9,929 +40%
Kidney and Ureter Procedures for Neoplasm without Complications/mcc

MS-DRG 658 · Inpatient stay

17 $75,464 $17,160 about average
Level 2 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures

APC 5462 · Hospital outpatient visit

17 $22,905 $6,849 -13%
Skin Infection (without major complications)

MS-DRG 603 · Inpatient stay

16 $27,469 $9,884 -10%
Urinary Tract Infection (severe)

MS-DRG 689 · Inpatient stay

16 $68,901 $17,296 +69%
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy without C.d.e. without Complications/mcc

MS-DRG 419 · Inpatient stay

16 $66,962 $13,288 -4%
Fluid and Electrolyte Disorder (without major complications)

MS-DRG 641 · Inpatient stay

15 $30,840 $8,811 about average
Percutaneous and Other Intracardiac Procedures with Major Complications

MS-DRG 273 · Inpatient stay

15 $142,921 $43,626 -23%
Cardiac Valve and Other Major Cardiothoracic Procedures without Cardiac Catheterization

MS-DRG 219 · Inpatient stay

15 $337,153 $84,019 about average
Combined Anterior and Posterior Spinal Fusion with Complications

MS-DRG 454 · Inpatient stay

15 $287,116 $80,155 +29%
Complications of Treatment with Complications

MS-DRG 920 · Inpatient stay

15 $50,081 $15,879 +13%
Other Cardiothoracic Procedures without Major Complications

MS-DRG 229 · Inpatient stay

15 $113,109 $31,804 -25%
Permanent Cardiac Pacemaker Implant with Major Complications

MS-DRG 242 · Inpatient stay

14 $109,451 $33,992 -21%
Other Circulatory System Diagnoses with Major Complications

MS-DRG 314 · Inpatient stay

14 $89,923 $23,534 +15%
Major Joint or Limb Reattachment Procedures of Upper Extremities

MS-DRG 483 · Inpatient stay

14 $92,221 $27,742 -10%
Level 2 Electrophysiologic Procedures

APC 5212 · Hospital outpatient visit

14 $42,301 $7,479 -5%
Craniotomy with Major Device Implant or Acute Complex Central Nervous System Principal

MS-DRG 023 · Inpatient stay

13 $206,588 $57,210 -10%
Respiratory Infection (with complications)

MS-DRG 178 · Inpatient stay

13 $41,597 $12,463 +12%
Pneumonia (with complications)

MS-DRG 194 · Inpatient stay

13 $29,882 $9,267 -6%
Signs and Symptoms without Major Complications

MS-DRG 948 · Inpatient stay

13 $31,851 $8,757 about average
Other Vascular Procedures with Complications

MS-DRG 253 · Inpatient stay

13 $128,274 $29,322 +14%
Chemotherapy without Acute Leukemia as Secondary Diagnosis with Complications

MS-DRG 847 · Inpatient stay

13 $43,493 $13,252 -19%
Level 2 Icd and Similar Procedures

APC 5232 · Hospital outpatient visit

13 $183,973 $32,845 +24%
Aortic and Heart Assist Procedures Except Pulsation Balloon without Major Complications

MS-DRG 269 · Inpatient stay

12 $201,143 $40,493 +22%
Heart Catheter Procedure (severe)

MS-DRG 321 · Inpatient stay

12 $139,257 $30,014 -3%
Hip or Thigh Bone Surgery (with complications)

MS-DRG 481 · Inpatient stay

12 $72,879 $21,446 -13%
Carotid Artery Stent Procedures without Complications/mcc

MS-DRG 036 · Inpatient stay

12 $83,623 $19,355 +19%
Respiratory Neoplasms with Major Complications

MS-DRG 180 · Inpatient stay

12 $92,498 $21,203 +25%
Other Major Cardiovascular Procedures with Major Complications

MS-DRG 270 · Inpatient stay

12 $171,706 $53,148 -24%
Nervous System Neoplasms with Major Complications

MS-DRG 054 · Inpatient stay

12 $67,585 $21,373 about average
Cervical Spinal Fusion with Complications

MS-DRG 472 · Inpatient stay

12 $92,873 $31,165 -22%
Kidney and Ureter Procedures for Non-neoplasm without Complications/mcc

MS-DRG 661 · Inpatient stay

12 $47,658 $11,921 about average
Hip Replacement with Principal Diagnosis of Hip Fracture without Major Complications

MS-DRG 522 · Inpatient stay

11 $82,122 $23,451 -4%
Back Problems (without major complications)

MS-DRG 552 · Inpatient stay

11 $25,304 $10,571 -35%
Psychoses

MS-DRG 885 · Inpatient stay

11 $50,309 $16,007 +39%
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy without C.d.e. with Complications

MS-DRG 418 · Inpatient stay

11 $71,972 $16,707 -13%
Pancreas, Liver and Shunt Procedures with Major Complications

MS-DRG 405 · Inpatient stay

11 $176,857 $54,769 -32%
Cirrhosis and Alcoholic Hepatitis with Major Complications

MS-DRG 432 · Inpatient stay

11 $78,412 $21,000 about average
Other Circulatory System Operating Room Procedures

MS-DRG 264 · Inpatient stay

11 $145,460 $44,582 +7%
Gastrointestinal Obstruction without Complications/mcc

MS-DRG 390 · Inpatient stay

11 $24,996 $7,120 +4%
Disorders of Pancreas Except Malignancy with Major Complications

MS-DRG 438 · Inpatient stay

11 $88,930 $17,283 +28%
O.r. Procedures for Obesity without Complications/mcc

MS-DRG 621 · Inpatient stay

11 $63,329 $16,577 -4%

These figures are averages across this hospital's Medicare patients in the most recent federal data year. They are not a quote and not your bill. For your own case, ask the hospital for a written good-faith estimate and check its published machine-readable price file.