Ungraded
Whitfield Regional Hospital
105 Highway 80 East, Demopolis, AL 36732 · (334) 289-4000
Not enough published pricing to grade
For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Whitfield Regional Hospital billed $1.44 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
- 1.4x
- volume-weighted across all its priced work
- Procedures priced
- 3
- inpatient and outpatient combined
- Rank in AL
- —
- lower markup ranks higher
- CMS quality stars
- 2/5
- shown for context, not in the grade
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 |
64 | $21,104 | $14,434 | -68% |
|
Respiratory Infection (severe)
MS-DRG 177 · Inpatient stay |
14 | $16,414 | $12,903 | -70% |
|
Respiratory Failure
MS-DRG 189 · Inpatient stay |
12 | $14,182 | $9,613 | -71% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Sepsis (severe)
MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay |
$21,104 | $14,434 | -68% |
|
Respiratory Infection (severe)
MS-DRG 177 · Inpatient stay |
$16,414 | $12,903 | -70% |
|
Respiratory Failure
MS-DRG 189 · Inpatient stay |
$14,182 | $9,613 | -71% |
Where it charges least relative to everyone else
| Procedure | Charged | Actually paid | vs national |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Respiratory Failure
MS-DRG 189 · Inpatient stay |
$14,182 | $9,613 | -71% |
|
Respiratory Infection (severe)
MS-DRG 177 · Inpatient stay |
$16,414 | $12,903 | -70% |
|
Sepsis (severe)
MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay |
$21,104 | $14,434 | -68% |
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.