CostGrade

Hospitals With the Smallest Gap Between Charges and Payments

Ranked by how much a hospital bills in list charges for every dollar of care actually paid for, across 2,617 graded hospitals. Only hospitals with at least ten priced procedures appear, so a single unusual case cannot put a hospital at either end.

This is not a ranking of cheap care. A low markup means a hospital's list prices sit close to what its care is actually paid for. It does not mean your treatment there will cost less than somewhere else — that depends on your insurance and your case.

  1. 1901
    D

    Riddle Memorial Hospital

    Media, PA

    6.1x — bills about $6.12 in charges for every $1 of care actually paid for

    110 procedures priced CMS quality 4/5 Voluntary non-profit - Private
  2. 1902
  3. 1903
    D

    Highline Medical Center

    Burien, WA

    6.1x — bills about $6.12 in charges for every $1 of care actually paid for

    33 procedures priced CMS quality 4/5 Voluntary non-profit - Private
  4. 1904
  5. 1905
  6. 1906
  7. 1907
  8. 1908
    D

    Adventhealth Ottawa

    Ottawa, KS

    6.1x — bills about $6.13 in charges for every $1 of care actually paid for

    17 procedures priced CMS quality 3/5 Government - Local
  9. 1909
    D

    Ocean Medical Center

    Brick, NJ

    6.1x — bills about $6.14 in charges for every $1 of care actually paid for

    162 procedures priced CMS quality 4/5 Voluntary non-profit - Other
  10. 1910
    D

    Minden Medical Center

    Minden, LA

    6.1x — bills about $6.14 in charges for every $1 of care actually paid for

    23 procedures priced CMS quality 2/5 Proprietary
  11. 1911
    D

    Beckley Arh Hospital

    Beckley, WV

    6.1x — bills about $6.15 in charges for every $1 of care actually paid for

    40 procedures priced CMS quality 3/5 Voluntary non-profit - Private
  12. 1912
  13. 1913
    D

    Mercy Hospital

    Bakersfield, CA

    6.2x — bills about $6.15 in charges for every $1 of care actually paid for

    64 procedures priced CMS quality 3/5 Voluntary non-profit - Other
  14. 1914
  15. 1915
    D

    Montefiore Medical Center

    Bronx, NY

    6.2x — bills about $6.16 in charges for every $1 of care actually paid for

    235 procedures priced CMS quality 3/5 Voluntary non-profit - Private
  16. 1916
  17. 1917
    C

    Marietta Memorial Hospital

    Marietta, OH

    6.2x — bills about $6.17 in charges for every $1 of care actually paid for

    99 procedures priced CMS quality 3/5 Voluntary non-profit - Other
  18. 1918
  19. 1919
  20. 1920
    D

    Morristown Medical Center

    Morristown, NJ

    6.2x — bills about $6.18 in charges for every $1 of care actually paid for

    302 procedures priced CMS quality 5/5 Voluntary non-profit - Private
  21. 1921
  22. 1922
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  24. 1924
  25. 1925
  26. 1926
  27. 1927
  28. 1928
  29. 1929
    D

    Cape Coral Hospital

    Cape Coral, FL

    6.2x — bills about $6.21 in charges for every $1 of care actually paid for

    126 procedures priced CMS quality 3/5 Government - Hospital District or Authority
  30. 1930
    F

    University Medical Center

    Las Vegas, NV

    6.2x — bills about $6.21 in charges for every $1 of care actually paid for

    92 procedures priced CMS quality 2/5 Voluntary non-profit - Other
  31. 1931
    D

    Central Carolina Hospital

    Sanford, NC

    6.2x — bills about $6.22 in charges for every $1 of care actually paid for

    19 procedures priced CMS quality 2/5 Voluntary non-profit - Private
  32. 1932
    D

    Shore Medical Center

    Somers Point, NJ

    6.2x — bills about $6.22 in charges for every $1 of care actually paid for

    89 procedures priced CMS quality 3/5 Voluntary non-profit - Private
  33. 1933
  34. 1934
  35. 1935
  36. 1936
  37. 1937
  38. 1938
    D

    Ascension Sacred Heart Bay

    Panama City, FL

    6.3x — bills about $6.26 in charges for every $1 of care actually paid for

    88 procedures priced CMS quality 3/5 Voluntary non-profit - Private
  39. 1939
    C

    Spring View Hospital

    Lebanon, KY

    6.3x — bills about $6.26 in charges for every $1 of care actually paid for

    15 procedures priced CMS quality 5/5 Proprietary
  40. 1940
    D

    Norton Hospitals, Inc

    Louisville, KY

    6.3x — bills about $6.26 in charges for every $1 of care actually paid for

    304 procedures priced CMS quality 2/5 Voluntary non-profit - Private
  41. 1941
  42. 1942
  43. 1943
  44. 1944
    D

    Riverview Medical Center

    Red Bank, NJ

    6.3x — bills about $6.27 in charges for every $1 of care actually paid for

    129 procedures priced CMS quality 3/5 Voluntary non-profit - Private
  45. 1945
  46. 1946
  47. 1947
    D

    Palm Bay Hospital

    Palm Bay, FL

    6.3x — bills about $6.28 in charges for every $1 of care actually paid for

    76 procedures priced CMS quality 3/5 Proprietary
  48. 1948
  49. 1949
  50. 1950