Hospital · CCN 250036

George Regional Health System

859 Winter Street, Lucedale, MS 39452 · George County
Rural areas: primary flow to a tract outside a urbanized area of 50,000 and greater or UC

5 admission types 17 outpatient services price file: ok

Billed per dollar paid, all admissions

2.39×

$1.9M billed against $786K paid across 71 Medicare discharges; the national figure is 5.03×.

2.5%

of adults in George County have medical debt in collections

13.9%

uninsured in the county · state 13.1%

$63K

median household income

2.4×

billed ÷ paid, inpatient, summed over the county's hospitals in the Medicare file (1 in the inpatient or outpatient file)ⓘ

37.2%

obesity in the countyⓘ

13.1%

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

690

Kidney and urinary tract infections without mcc

$16,553

$7,330

2.3× st 4.1×

193

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy with mcc

$29,346

$11,236

2.6× st 5.0×

871

Septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc

$37,951

$16,226

2.3× st 4.6×

177

Respiratory infections and inflammations with mcc

$28,995

$14,715

2.0× st 4.6×

194

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy with cc

$24,304

$7,600

3.2× st 5.2×

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

$10,064

$2,373

4.2×

5113

Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures

$9,800

$2,610

3.8×

5072

Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage

$7,433

$1,418

5.2×

5361

Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services

$11,069

$5,046

2.2×

5092

Level 2 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures

—

5431

Level 1 Nerve Procedures

—

5414

Level 4 Gynecologic Procedures

—

5341

Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures

—

5331

Complex GI Procedures

—

5313

Level 3 Lower GI Procedures

—

5302

Level 2 Upper GI Procedures

—

5073

Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage

—

5182

Level 2 Vascular Procedures

—

5114

Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures

—

5091

Level 1 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures

—

5112

Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures

—

5183

Level 3 Vascular Procedures

—

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 7/27/2026, template 3.0.0, 21 rows scanned, 3 distinct code–setting items kept. 1 finding against it.

Service

Code

Listed

Cash

Negotiated

Rates

Checks

COLONOSCOPY W/LESION SNARE

CPT 45385

$2,653

$1,724

$972

clean

RAD EX, CHEST SINGLE VIEW

CPT 71045

$125

$81

$157

clean

BICILLIN G L-A 100,000 INJ

CPT J0561

$503

$327

$60

clean

Findings

Service

Severity

Rule

Detail

CPT 71045/o

warn

mrf_negotiated_above_gross

highest negotiated rate $194 exceeds the gross charge $125

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)
George Regional Health System — standard charges file · MS · updated 7/27/2026
· csv-tall · 5K bytes · fetched 2026-08-26 · sha256 60bde9817e52…

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.