Inpatient services
1. Number of inpatient admissions: 10 million
2. Total fee-for-service payments: $112 billion
3. Payments per FFS beneficiary: $3,002
4. Inpatient costs per discharge increase from 2014 to 2015: 2.2 percent
5. Inpatient discharges per FFS Part A beneficiary percent change from 2006 to 2015: 19.5 percent decrease
6. Share of total Medicare revenue from inpatient services: 60 percent (down from 71 percent in 2010)
Outpatient services
7. Number of visits for outpatient services: 200 million
8. Total fee-for-service payments: $58 billion
9. Payments per FFS beneficiary: $1,753
10. Outpatient visits per FFS Part B beneficiary percent change from 2006 to 2015: 47.4 percent increase
11. Share of total Medicare revenue from outpatient care: 28 percent (up from 21 percent in 2010)
Uncompensated care
12. Non-Medicare uncompensated care costs: $8 billion
13. Payments per FFS beneficiary for uncompensated care: $202
14. Share of total Medicare revenue from uncompensated care: 4 percent
Hospital margins
15. All hospitals excluding critical access hospitals and Maryland hospitals: -7.1 percent (compared to -4.9 percent in 2010)
16. Urban hospitals: -7.3 percent (compared to -5.2 percent in 2010)
17. Rural hospitals excluding critical access hospitals: -4.9 percent (compared to -2.6 percent in 2010)
18. Rural hospitals including critical access hospitals: -3.2 percent (compared to -1.7 percent in 2010)
19. Nonprofit hospitals: -8.5 percent (compared to -6.3 percent in 2010)
20. For-profit hospitals: -1.3 percent (compared to -0.1 percent in 2010)
21. Major teaching hospitals (hospitals with a high resident-to-bed ratio): -5.2 percent (compared to -1 percent in 2010)
22. Other teaching hospitals: -5.8 percent (compared to -4.6 percent in 2010)
23. Nonteaching hospitals: -9.6 percent (compared to -8 percent in 2010)
24. EBITDA margin excluding critical access hospitals and Maryland hospitals: 10.6 percent (up from 10.4 percent in 2010)
25. Total all-payer margin excluding critical access hospitals: 6.8 percent (up from 6.3 percent in 2010)
26. Operating margin excluding critical access hospitals: 6.4 percent (up from 5.2 percent in 2010)
Hospital charge markups based on MedPAC’s analysis of 2014 Medicare claims and cost reports. Here are the cost-to-charge ratios:
27. All markups: 3.2
28. Routine: 1.4
29. Special care: 1.8
30. Supplies/devices: 2.8
31. Drugs: 3.6
32. Operating room: 4.8
33. Lab: 6
34. Radiology: 7.9
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