Fact Based List:
Top 10 Hospitals Whose Patients Cost Medicare The Most
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 10:35
- Allegiance Hospital of Midland-Permian Basin (Midland, Texas): $30,939 [acute long-care hospital]
- Harmon Medical and Rehabilitation Hospital (Las Vegas, Nev.): $28,601[rehabilitation hospital]
- Southwestern Regional Medical Center (Tulsa, Okla.): $27,702
- East Valley Hospital Medical Center (Glendora, Calif.): $26,802
- Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center (Los Angeles, Calif.): $25,903
- Cancer Treatment Centers of America (Philadelphia):$25,723 [acute long-term care]
- Rothman Specialty Hospital (Bensalem, Penn.): $25,723 [surgical hospital]
- Hollywood Community Hospital of Hollywood (Hollywood, Calif.): $24,644
- Los Angeles Community Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.): $24,644
- Silver Lake Medical Center (Los Angeles, Calif.): $24,644
Notes: All hospitals are general medical and surgical hospitals unless noted otherwise. Medicare calculates a hospital rate as a ratio to the national median, which was $17,988 for the period analyzed (May 2010 through Feburary 2011). Kaiser Health News translated the hospital ratio into a dollar figure.
Source: Kaiser Health News
Source URL: http://capsules.kaiserhealthnews.org/index.php/2012/05/which...
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