Hospital · CCN 050072

Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Walnut Creek

1425 S Main Street, Walnut Creek, CA 94596 · Contra Costa County
Part of Kaiser Permanente · 249 beds · 1
Metropolitan area core: primary flow within an urbanized area of 50,000 and greater

5 admission types 30 outpatient services

Billed per dollar paid, all admissions

3.07×

$12.4M billed against $4.0M paid across 131 Medicare discharges; the national figure is 5.03×.

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of adults in Contra Costa County have medical debt in collections — state bars medical debt from credit reports; the credit-bureau panel cannot see it

5.2%

uninsured in the county · state 7.5%

$122K

median household income

8.1×

billed ÷ paid, inpatient, summed over the county's hospitals in the Medicare file (7 in the inpatient or outpatient file)ⓘ

28.0%

obesity in the countyⓘ

11.3%

diagnosed diabetes (PLACES)

5.5%

coronary heart disease (PLACES)

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median age · — below poverty (ACS)

01 · Admissions

What it billed Medicare, by admission type

Average charge submitted and average total payment per discharge, 2024. Rows under 11 discharges are suppressed by CMS. The last column is the hospital's ratio against its state's for the same admission.

DRG

Admission

Discharges

Charge

Paid

Billed ÷ paid

871

Septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc

$112,236

$35,489

3.2× st 6.2×

872

Septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours without mcc

$50,404

$27,801

1.8× st 6.1×

291

Heart failure and shock with mcc

$91,845

$15,377

6.0× st 6.5×

177

Respiratory infections and inflammations with mcc

$61,608

$23,028

2.7× st 6.6×

189

Pulmonary edema and respiratory failure

$81,881

$32,724

2.5× st 6.7×

02 · Outpatient

Outpatient services

Comprehensive APCs, Medicare's outpatient payment groups: submitted charge against what Medicare allowed, per service.

APC

Service

Services

Charge

Allowed

Billed ÷ allowed

8011

Comprehensive Observation Services

$44,651

$3,698

12.1×

5192

Level 2 Endovascular Procedures

$29,645

$7,850

3.8×

5302

Level 2 Upper GI Procedures

—

5313

Level 3 Lower GI Procedures

—

5341

Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures

—

5361

Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services

—

5362

Level 2 Laparoscopy and Related Services

—

5372

Level 2 Urology and Related Services

—

5373

Level 3 Urology and Related Services

—

5374

Level 4 Urology and Related Services

—

5375

Level 5 Urology and Related Services

—

5491

Level 1 Intraocular Procedures

—

5492

Level 2 Intraocular Procedures

—

5493

Level 3 Intraocular Procedures

—

5232

Level 2 ICD and Similar Procedures

—

5194

Level 4 Endovascular Procedures

—

5193

Level 3 Endovascular Procedures

—

5073

Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage

—

5091

Level 1 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures

—

5092

Level 2 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures

—

5113

Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures

—

5114

Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures

—

5115

Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures

—

5153

Level 3 Airway Endoscopy

—

5154

Level 4 Airway Endoscopy

—

5165

Level 5 ENT Procedures

—

5183

Level 3 Vascular Procedures

—

5184

Level 4 Vascular Procedures

—

5191

Level 1 Endovascular Procedures

—

5072

Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage

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Sources for this hospital

the files read, as fetched — not our copy of them

Medicare Inpatient Hospitals - by Provider and Service · CMS · 2024
MUP_INP_RY26_P03_V10_DY24_PrvSvc.CSV · 38.0M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 2ab6da15be4c… · publisher's page · public domain (US federal)
Medicare Outpatient Hospitals - by Provider and Service · CMS · 2024
MUP_OUT_RY26_P04_V10_DY24_Prov_Svc.csv · 28.1M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 f293918edbf6… · publisher's page · public domain (US federal)
AHRQ Compendium of U.S. Health Systems — hospital linkage file · AHRQ · 2023
chsp-hospital-linkage-2023.csv · 1.5M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 a86146f10c8d… · publisher's page · public; cite AHRQ Compendium of U.S. Health Systems
2020 ZCTA to County relationship file · US Census Bureau · 2020
tab20_zcta520_county20_natl.txt · 6.8M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 3ed41278d637… · publisher's page · public domain (US federal)

Every figure on this page is computed from these files by pipeline/prices/; the same rows are in the API.

Source rows for this hospital as JSON: inpatient · outpatient. CMS, Medicare Inpatient and Outpatient Hospitals by Provider and Service, 2024.