Health system · AHRQ HSI00000297
DCH Health System
2 member hospitals in the Medicare files across AL · corporate parent DCH HEALTH SYSTEM. Ranked 442 of 587 systems by what it bills per dollar paidⓘ.
4K Medicare discharges
$148.7M billed
$50.7M paid
Billed per dollar paid, all members, all admissions
2.94×
National figure: 5.03×. Source: AHRQ Compendium of U.S. Health Systems for membership; CMS Medicare inpatient file for charges and payments.
01 · Member hospitals
Every hospital in the system, by what it bills
Hospital
City · ZIP
County · debt · uninsured
Discharges
Admission types
Beds
Billed ÷ paid
Dch Regional Medical Center
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
Tuscaloosa County · 3.4% · 8.8%
3,484
92
398
3.0×
Fayette Medical Center
Fayette, AL 35555
Fayette County · 2.6% · 11.6%
65
4
35
1.6×
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Sources
the files read, as fetched — not our copy of them- 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
- MUP_INP_RY26_P03_V10_DY24_PrvSvc.CSV · 38.0M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 2ab6da15be4c… · publisher's page · public domain (US federal)
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