Excerpt from: The Oakland Press (click for full article)
The average charges for treatment of heart failure and shock in 2011
were $12,295 at Crittenton Hospital in Rochester but $16,710 at William
Beaumont Hospital in Troy. Meanwhile, the average Medicare payment to
the hospitals was $4,159 to Crittenton and $4,325 to Beaumont.
The
average charges and payments are part of a national database released
Wednesday through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and
part of a push by the Obama administration to make the health care
system more affordable by making it more transparent and accountable.
Released
was hospital-specific charges for more than 3,000 hospitals across the
country that receive inpatient Medicare payments for the top 100 most
frequently billed charges.
The average charges and payments by hospital by treatment are searchable below.
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