Hospital · CCN 290061

Northern Nevada Sierra Medical Center

6500 Longley Lane, Reno, NV 89511 · Washoe County
Part of Universal Health Services · 170 beds · 5
Metropolitan area core: primary flow within an urbanized area of 50,000 and greater

7 admission types 47 outpatient services
Billed per dollar paid, all admissions
7.64×
$31.9M billed against $4.2M paid across 172 Medicare discharges; the national figure is 5.03×.
6.5%
of adults in Washoe County have medical debt in collections
12.9%
uninsured in the county · state 13.2%
$84K
median household income
3.9×
billed ÷ paid, inpatient, summed over the county's hospitals in the Medicare file (4 in the inpatient or outpatient file)ⓘ
28.5%
obesity in the countyⓘ
10.0%
diagnosed diabetes (PLACES)
6.1%
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
266
Endovascular cardiac valve replacement and supplement procedures with mcc
35
$358,857
$47,800
7.5× st 7.2×
274
Percutaneous and other intracardiac procedures without mcc
35
$194,148
$24,863
7.8× st 7.6×
291
Heart failure and shock with mcc
33
$120,893
$14,938
8.1× st 8.3×
871
Septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc
33
$131,409
$19,284
6.8× st 10.1×
177
Respiratory infections and inflammations with mcc
12
$122,846
$15,995
7.7× st 8.4×
193
Simple pneumonia and pleurisy with mcc
12
$106,245
$12,987
8.2× st 8.7×
640
Miscellaneous disorders of nutrition, metabolism, fluids and electrolytes with mcc
12
$119,409
$12,611
9.5× st 8.5×
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
69
$39,725
$2,898
13.7×
5115
Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures
67
$144,653
$13,699
10.6×
5191
Level 1 Endovascular Procedures
60
$50,136
$3,454
14.5×
5302
Level 2 Upper GI Procedures
46
$29,215
$1,981
14.8×
5213
Level 3 Electrophysiologic Procedures
40
$203,510
$25,366
8.0×
5114
Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures
32
$84,654
$7,504
11.3×
5361
Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services
31
$88,287
$6,180
14.3×
5375
Level 5 Urology and Related Services
23
$53,737
$5,542
9.7×
5193
Level 3 Endovascular Procedures
23
$119,880
$11,767
10.2×
5223
Level 3 Pacemaker and Similar Procedures
20
$116,325
$11,422
10.2×
5224
Level 4 Pacemaker and Similar Procedures
18
$158,358
$20,816
7.6×
5072
Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage
17
$15,917
$1,736
9.2×
5362
Level 2 Laparoscopy and Related Services
15
$123,950
$11,012
11.3×
5374
Level 4 Urology and Related Services
14
$45,292
$3,734
12.1×
5222
Level 2 Pacemaker and Similar Procedures
12
$60,849
$8,479
7.2×
5194
Level 4 Endovascular Procedures
12
$143,229
$17,175
8.3×
5341
Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures
11
$90,616
$3,705
24.5×
5112
Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures
11
$28,523
$1,721
16.6×
5113
Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures
11
$58,513
$3,264
17.9×
5464
Level 4 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures
—
—
—
—
5092
Level 2 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures
—
—
—
—
5373
Level 3 Urology and Related Services
—
—
—
—
5091
Level 1 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures
—
—
—
—
5073
Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage
—
—
—
—
5376
Level 6 Urology and Related Services
—
—
—
—
5378
Level 8 Urology and Related Services
—
—
—
—
5503
Level 3 Extraocular, Repair, and Plastic Eye Procedures
—
—
—
—
5415
Level 5 Gynecologic Procedures
—
—
—
—
5465
Level 5 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures
—
—
—
—
5461
Level 1 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures
—
—
—
—
5414
Level 4 Gynecologic Procedures
—
—
—
—
5192
Level 2 Endovascular Procedures
—
—
—
—
5331
Complex GI Procedures
—
—
—
—
5183
Level 3 Vascular Procedures
—
—
—
—
5182
Level 2 Vascular Procedures
—
—
—
—
5200
Implantation Wireless PA Pressure Monitor
—
—
—
—
5212
Level 2 Electrophysiologic Procedures
—
—
—
—
5165
Level 5 ENT Procedures
—
—
—
—
5155
Level 5 Airway Endoscopy
—
—
—
—
5154
Level 4 Airway Endoscopy
—
—
—
—
5153
Level 3 Airway Endoscopy
—
—
—
—
5231
Level 1 ICD and Similar Procedures
—
—
—
—
5232
Level 2 ICD and Similar Procedures
—
—
—
—
5116
Level 6 Musculoskeletal Procedures
—
—
—
—
5303
Level 3 Upper GI Procedures
—
—
—
—
5313
Level 3 Lower GI Procedures
—
—
—
—
5431
Level 1 Nerve Procedures
—
—
—
—

Sources for this hospital

the files read, as fetched — not our copy of them
  1. MUP_INP_RY26_P03_V10_DY24_PrvSvc.CSV · 38.0M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 2ab6da15be4c… · publisher's page · public domain (US federal)
  2. 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)
  3. 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
  4. 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.