Health system · AHRQ HSI00001116
UAB Health System
6 member hospitals in the Medicare files across AL · corporate parent UAB HEALTH SYSTEM. Ranked 206 of 587 systems by what it bills per dollar paidⓘ.
8K Medicare discharges
$1,103.2M billed
$247.3M paid
Billed per dollar paid, all members, all admissions
4.46×
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
University Of Alabama Hospital
Birmingham, AL 35233
Jefferson County · 6.2% · 9.6%
7,197
222
1,149
4.5×
Northwest Medical Center
Winfield, AL 35594
Fayette County · 2.6% · 11.6%
79
4
28
3.5×
Medical West, An Affiliate Of Uab Health System
Bessemer, AL 35022
Jefferson County · 6.2% · 9.6%
461
18
204
3.2×
Russell Medical Center
Alexander City, AL 35010
Tallapoosa County · 2.9% · 12.3%
107
4
45
1.6×
Whitfield Regional Hospital
Demopolis, AL 36732
Marengo County · 3.2% · 10.2%
90
3
47
1.4×
Uab Callahan Eye Hospital Authority
Birmingham, AL 35233
Jefferson County · 6.2% · 9.6%
15
1
6
1.4×
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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