What Medicare spent on an average patient at this hospital compared with the national average, expressed as a ratio. 1.00 is exactly average; 0.94 is 6% less.
Why this matters to you
This measures cost to Medicare, not your bill. It will not tell you what you will pay, which depends on your insurance and the prices your plan negotiated. And lower is not automatically better — it can reflect genuine efficiency, or under-treatment. Treat it as context rather than as a quality score.
Official source
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Quality measures come from CMS public datasets, released August 13, 2026, and reflect
care delivered during earlier reporting periods, so they may not describe a
hospital as it operates today.
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