Health system · AHRQ HSI00000644
Medical University of South Carolina Medical Center
7 member hospitals in the Medicare files across SC · corporate parent MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA MEDICAL CENTER. Ranked 255 of 587 systems by what it bills per dollar paidⓘ.
13K Medicare discharges
$1,237.5M billed
$305.1M paid
Billed per dollar paid, all members, all admissions
4.06×
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
Musc Health Lancaster Medical Center
Lancaster, SC 29720
Lancaster County · 3.6% · 9.6%
629
29
78
8.3×
Musc Health Florence Medical Center
Florence, SC 29505
Florence County · 3.5% · 10.5%
1,811
61
187
7.5×
Musc Health Columbia Medical Center Downtown
Columbia, SC 29204
Richland County · 4.1% · 9.6%
2,086
69
332
5.2×
Kershaw Medical Center
Camden, SC 29020
Kershaw County · 5.0% · 10.1%
479
22
99
4.3×
Musc Medical Center
Charleston, SC 29425
Charleston County · 5.0% · 9.7%
8,132
223
817
3.5×
Musc Health Chester Medical Center
Chester, SC 29706
Chester County · 7.0% · 11.0%
13
1
16
3.2×
Musc Health Marion Medical Center
Mullins, SC 29574
Marion County · 5.2% · 12.4%
50
2
36
2.7×
A system's figure is not the average of its hospitals' figures: it is one fraction over all their discharges, so the large hospitals dominate it. Hospitals the AHRQ file lists as members but that do not appear in the Medicare inpatient file are not here. Filter the explorer to this system →
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)
Every figure on this page is computed from these files by pipeline/prices/; the same rows are in the API.