Hospital · CCN 170200

Ascension Via Christi Hospital St. Teresa, Inc.

14800 West St Teresa, Wichita, KS 67235 · Sedgwick County
Part of Ascension Health · 38 beds · 2
Metropolitan area core: primary flow within an urbanized area of 50,000 and greater

20 admission types 22 outpatient services price file: ok

Billed per dollar paid, all admissions

3.93×

$25.9M billed against $6.6M paid across 688 Medicare discharges; the national figure is 5.03×.

2.0%

of adults in Sedgwick County have medical debt in collections

12.4%

uninsured in the county · state 10.2%

$67K

median household income

7.7×

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

38.6%

obesity in the countyⓘ

12.0%

diagnosed diabetes (PLACES)

6.5%

coronary heart disease (PLACES)

—

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

165

$43,749

$12,020

3.6× st 5.5×

291

Heart failure and shock with mcc

$35,641

$8,157

4.4× st 5.2×

193

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy with mcc

$32,888

$8,219

4.0× st 5.3×

177

Respiratory infections and inflammations with mcc

$37,444

$10,156

3.7× st 5.2×

872

Septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours without mcc

$27,323

$6,854

4.0× st 5.6×

682

Renal failure with mcc

$40,242

$9,421

4.3× st 6.1×

683

Renal failure with cc

$25,851

$5,717

4.5× st 5.5×

189

Pulmonary edema and respiratory failure

$29,515

$7,744

3.8× st 5.4×

392

Esophagitis, gastroenteritis and miscellaneous digestive disorders without mcc

$26,754

$5,256

5.1× st 6.9×

378

Gastrointestinal hemorrhage with cc

$27,755

$5,875

4.7× st 6.1×

698

Other kidney and urinary tract diagnoses with mcc

$33,848

$9,776

3.5× st 5.8×

640

Miscellaneous disorders of nutrition, metabolism, fluids and electrolytes with mcc

$30,274

$8,208

3.7× st 5.9×

641

Miscellaneous disorders of nutrition, metabolism, fluids and electrolytes without mcc

$23,399

$5,010

4.7× st 6.3×

689

Kidney and urinary tract infections with mcc

$30,680

$7,290

4.2× st 5.4×

603

Cellulitis without mcc

$24,868

$5,537

4.5× st 5.9×

853

Infectious and parasitic diseases with o.r. procedures with mcc

$92,162

$30,037

3.1× st 6.1×

309

Cardiac arrhythmia and conduction disorders with cc

$34,790

$5,207

6.7× st 5.8×

522

Hip replacement with principal diagnosis of hip fracture without mcc

$48,374

$12,584

3.8× st 5.9×

690

Kidney and urinary tract infections without mcc

$19,911

$5,030

4.0× st 6.6×

329

Major small and large bowel procedures with mcc

$117,944

$27,104

4.4× st 6.4×

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

303

$17,332

$2,299

7.5×

5361

Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services

$25,036

$4,926

5.1×

5113

Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures

$14,167

$2,763

5.1×

5114

Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures

$24,922

$6,108

4.1×

5115

Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures

$35,302

$11,223

3.1×

5341

Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures

$22,568

$2,954

7.6×

5116

Level 6 Musculoskeletal Procedures

$55,874

$15,878

3.5×

5302

Level 2 Upper GI Procedures

$5,416

$1,624

3.3×

5073

Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage

$15,078

$2,426

6.2×

5431

Level 1 Nerve Procedures

—

5374

Level 4 Urology and Related Services

—

5373

Level 3 Urology and Related Services

—

5362

Level 2 Laparoscopy and Related Services

—

5375

Level 5 Urology and Related Services

—

5342

Level 2 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures

—

5331

Complex GI Procedures

—

5313

Level 3 Lower GI Procedures

—

5191

Level 1 Endovascular Procedures

—

5183

Level 3 Vascular Procedures

—

5182

Level 2 Vascular Procedures

—

5112

Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures

—

5072

Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage

—

03 · Its own price file

What the hospital's price-transparency file says

Found via /cms-hpt.txt, the file itself ↗ read as csv-tall, last updated 01/01/2026, template 3.0.0, 200,445 rows scanned, 11,581 distinct code–setting items kept. No rule fires against it.

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)
Ascension Via Christi Hospital St. Teresa, Inc. — standard charges file · KS · updated 01/01/2026
· csv-tall · 52.6M bytes · fetched 2026-08-23 · sha256 c523f0a6810c…

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 · price file. CMS, Medicare Inpatient and Outpatient Hospitals by Provider and Service, 2024.