Hospital · CCN 250007

Merit Health Biloxi

150 Reynoir Street, Biloxi, MS 39530 · Harrison County
Part of Community Health Systems · 121 beds · 5
Metropolitan area core: primary flow within an urbanized area of 50,000 and greater

8 admission types 34 outpatient services 6 Medicare-file findings

Billed per dollar paid, all admissions

10.44×

$19.1M billed against $1.8M paid across 161 Medicare discharges; the national figure is 5.03×.

4.0%

of adults in Harrison County have medical debt in collections

14.1%

uninsured in the county · state 13.1%

$57K

median household income

8.5×

billed ÷ paid, inpatient, summed over the county's hospitals in the Medicare file (2 in the inpatient or outpatient file)ⓘ

36.5%

obesity in the countyⓘ

14.1%

diagnosed diabetes (PLACES)

7.2%

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

$142,192

$14,035

10.1× st 4.6×

291

Heart failure and shock with mcc

$122,774

$10,417

11.8× st 4.6×

193

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy with mcc

$111,248

$10,245

10.9× st 5.0×

280

Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive with mcc

$108,308

$10,761

10.1× st 4.4×

689

Kidney and urinary tract infections with mcc

$111,002

$9,678

11.5× st 4.4×

177

Respiratory infections and inflammations with mcc

$142,881

$13,147

10.9× st 4.6×

641

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

$50,957

$7,199

7.1× st 4.0×

603

Cellulitis without mcc

$76,962

$7,919

9.7× st 4.9×

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

5492

Level 2 Intraocular Procedures

$77,499

$3,320

23.3×

8011

Comprehensive Observation Services

$53,372

$2,235

23.9×

5114

Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures

$112,582

$5,842

19.3×

5072

Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage

$14,833

$1,283

11.6×

5361

Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services

$122,365

$4,712

26.0×

5115

Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures

$169,282

$10,229

16.5×

5302

Level 2 Upper GI Procedures

$48,396

$1,554

31.1×

5191

Level 1 Endovascular Procedures

$81,043

$2,665

30.4×

5493

Level 3 Intraocular Procedures

$82,771

$4,268

19.4×

5362

Level 2 Laparoscopy and Related Services

—

5414

Level 4 Gynecologic Procedures

—

5415

Level 5 Gynecologic Procedures

—

5431

Level 1 Nerve Procedures

—

5461

Level 1 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures

—

5462

Level 2 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures

—

5464

Level 4 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures

—

5465

Level 5 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures

—

5491

Level 1 Intraocular Procedures

—

5073

Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage

—

5341

Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures

—

5313

Level 3 Lower GI Procedures

—

5113

Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures

—

5092

Level 2 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures

—

5116

Level 6 Musculoskeletal Procedures

—

5182

Level 2 Vascular Procedures

—

5183

Level 3 Vascular Procedures

—

5192

Level 2 Endovascular Procedures

—

5193

Level 3 Endovascular Procedures

—

5194

Level 4 Endovascular Procedures

—

5223

Level 3 Pacemaker and Similar Procedures

—

5224

Level 4 Pacemaker and Similar Procedures

—

5091

Level 1 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures

—

5303

Level 3 Upper GI Procedures

—

5112

Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures

—

03 · Checks

Where the Medicare rows do not agree with themselves

Service

Severity

Rule

Detail

MS-DRG 177

info

inp_charge_10x_payment

average charge $142,881 is 10.9× the total payment

MS-DRG 193

info

inp_charge_10x_payment

average charge $111,248 is 10.9× the total payment

MS-DRG 280

info

inp_charge_10x_payment

average charge $108,308 is 10.1× the total payment

MS-DRG 291

info

inp_charge_10x_payment

average charge $122,774 is 11.8× the total payment

MS-DRG 689

info

inp_charge_10x_payment

average charge $111,002 is 11.5× the total payment

MS-DRG 871

info

inp_charge_10x_payment

average charge $142,192 is 10.1× the total payment

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.