Health system · AHRQ HSI00000866
Tower Health
3 member hospitals in the Medicare files across PA · corporate parent TOWER HEALTH. Ranked 152 of 587 systems by what it bills per dollar paidⓘ.
10K Medicare discharges
$623.0M billed
$128.9M paid
Billed per dollar paid, all members, all admissions
4.83×
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
Pottstown Hospital
Pottstown, PA 19464
Montgomery County · 1.5% · 4.4%
1,263
48
185
7.0×
Phoenixville Hospital
Phoenixville, PA 19460
Chester County · 2.0% · 5.8%
1,413
52
130
5.8×
Reading Hospital
West Reading, PA 19611
Berks County · 6.0% · 7.5%
7,009
168
561
4.4×
St Christopher's Hospital For Children
Philadelphia, PA 19134
Philadelphia County · 1.6% · 7.7%
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1
188
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TOWER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
READING, PA 19605
Berks County · 6.0% · 7.5%
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1
144
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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)
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