Hospital · CCN 050528
Memorial Hospital Los Banos
520 West I St, Los Banos, CA 93635 · Merced County
Part of Sutter Health · 26 beds · 1
Micropolitan area core: primary flow within an urban cluster of 10,000 to 49,999
8 admission types 14 outpatient services
Billed per dollar paid, all admissions
1.60×
$10.2M billed against $6.4M paid across 172 Medicare discharges; the national figure is 5.03×.
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of adults in Merced County have medical debt in collections — state bars medical debt from credit reports; the credit-bureau panel cannot see it
8.6%
uninsured in the county · state 7.5%
$59K
median household income
5.9×
billed ÷ paid, inpatient, summed over the county's hospitals in the Medicare file (2 in the inpatient or outpatient file)ⓘ
33.8%
obesity in the countyⓘ
13.0%
diagnosed diabetes (PLACES)
6.1%
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
75
$72,846
$49,025
1.5× st 6.2×
872
Septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours without mcc
19
$52,475
$25,559
2.1× st 6.1×
193
Simple pneumonia and pleurisy with mcc
18
$47,720
$32,775
1.5× st 6.9×
291
Heart failure and shock with mcc
16
$46,834
$32,563
1.4× st 6.5×
392
Esophagitis, gastroenteritis and miscellaneous digestive disorders without mcc
11
$42,482
$19,225
2.2× st 6.8×
640
Miscellaneous disorders of nutrition, metabolism, fluids and electrolytes with mcc
11
$57,950
$32,785
1.8× st 5.7×
689
Kidney and urinary tract infections with mcc
11
$50,618
$28,977
1.7× st 6.3×
690
Kidney and urinary tract infections without mcc
11
$43,160
$20,034
2.2× st 6.6×
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
91
$36,081
$3,604
10.0×
5183
Level 3 Vascular Procedures
15
$41,881
$4,057
10.3×
5113
Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures
13
$24,386
$3,740
6.5×
5361
Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services
11
$39,800
$7,047
5.6×
5414
Level 4 Gynecologic Procedures
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—
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5374
Level 4 Urology and Related Services
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—
—
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5362
Level 2 Laparoscopy and Related Services
—
—
—
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5341
Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures
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—
—
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5313
Level 3 Lower GI Procedures
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—
—
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5182
Level 2 Vascular Procedures
—
—
—
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5114
Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures
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—
—
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5112
Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures
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—
—
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5073
Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage
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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 themMUP_INP_RY26_P03_V10_DY24_PrvSvc.CSV · 38.0M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 ·
sha256 2ab6da15be4c… ·
publisher's page · public domain (US federal)
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)
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
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.