Hospital · CCN 440218

Saint Thomas Hospital For Specialty Surgery

2011 Murphy Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203 · Davidson County
Part of Ascension Health · 23 beds · 5
Metropolitan area core: primary flow within an urbanized area of 50,000 and greater

7 admission types 6 outpatient services
Billed per dollar paid, all admissions
2.98×
$23.9M billed against $8.0M paid across 304 Medicare discharges; the national figure is 5.03×.
5.9%
of adults in Davidson County have medical debt in collections
12.7%
uninsured in the county · state 11.1%
$80K
median household income
5.8×
billed ÷ paid, inpatient, summed over the county's hospitals in the Medicare file (8 in the inpatient or outpatient file)ⓘ
32.3%
obesity in the countyⓘ
11.2%
diagnosed diabetes (PLACES)
5.1%
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
460
Spinal fusion except cervical without mcc
121
$75,016
$23,775
3.2× st 4.5×
472
Cervical spinal fusion with cc
58
$58,603
$19,714
3.0× st 4.4×
454
Combined anterior and posterior spinal fusion with cc
35
$105,252
$39,576
2.7× st 5.1×
448
Multiple level spinal fusion except cervical without mcc
34
$78,370
$27,635
2.8× st 4.3×
457
Spinal fusion except cervical with spinal curvature, malignancy, infection or extensive
23
$107,504
$40,164
2.7× st 5.4×
455
Combined anterior and posterior spinal fusion without cc/mcc
17
$100,962
$28,963
3.5× st 4.9×
473
Cervical spinal fusion without cc/mcc
16
$56,062
$16,444
3.4× st 4.8×
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
5116
Level 6 Musculoskeletal Procedures
235
$83,403
$15,610
5.3×
5115
Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures
224
$57,660
$11,067
5.2×
5114
Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures
195
$33,262
$5,945
5.6×
5431
Level 1 Nerve Procedures
33
$14,027
$1,543
9.1×
5461
Level 1 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures
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—
—
—
5462
Level 2 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures
—
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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.