Becker's calculated the payer mix within the nation's top ranked hospitals to determine the share of their patients covered under commercial plans, Medicare, Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, uninsured/bad debt and charity care.
The 2019 data released April 5 is from the coverage, cost and value team at the National Academy for State Health Policy in collaboration with Houston-based Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Payer mix in the nation's top 20 hospitals:
(1) Mayo Clinic Hospital — Rochester, Minn.
Commercial: 50 percent
Medicare: 33 percent
Medicare Advantage: 9 percent
Medicaid: 7 percent
Charity care: 1 percent
Uninsured / Bad debt: 0 percent
(2) Cleveland Clinic Hospital
Commercial: 45 percent
Medicare: 24 percent
Medicare Advantage: 17 percent
Medicaid: 12 percent
Charity care: 1 percent
Uninsured / Bad debt: 1 percent
(3) Ronald Reagan UC Los Angeles Medical Center
Commercial: 45 percent
Medicare: 27 percent
Medicaid: 18 percent
Medicare Advantage: 8 percent
Charity care: 0 percent
Uninsured / Bad debt: 0 percent
(4) Johns Hopkins Hospital — Baltimore
Commercial: 46 percent
Medicare: 28 percent
Medicaid: 22
Medicare Advantage: 2 percent
Uninsured / Bad debt: 2 percent
Charity Care: 1 percent
(5) Massachusetts General Hospital — Boston
Commercial: 48 percent
Medicare: 32 percent
Medicaid: 11 percent
Medicare Advantage: 7 percent
Charity care: 1 percent
Uninsured / Bad debt: 1 percent
(6) Cedars-Sinai Medical Center — Los Angeles
Commercial: 42 percent
Medicare: 41 percent
Medicaid: 10 percent
Medicare Advantage: 6 percent
Charity care: 1 percent
Uninsured / Bad debt: 0 percent
(7) NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital — New York City
Commercial: 34 percent
Medicaid: 25 percent
Medicare: 22 percent
Medicare Advantage: 17 percent
Charity Care: 1 percent
Uninsured / Bad debt: 1 percent
(8) NYU Langone Hospital — New York City
Commercial: 42 percent
Medicare: 25 percent
Medicaid: 19 percent
Medicare Advantage: 6 percent
Charity care: 1 percent
Uninsured / Bad debt: 0 percent
(9) UC San Francisco Medical Center
Commercial: 42 percent
Medicaid: 25 percent
Medicare: 25 percent
Medicare Advantage: 5 percent
Charity Care: 1 percent
Uninsured / Bad debt: 0 percent
(10) Northwestern Memorial Hospital — Chicago
Commercial: 52 percent
Medicare: 27 percent
Medicaid: 11 percent
Medicare Advantage: 7 percent
Charity care: 2 percent
Uninsured / Bad debt: 1 percent
(11) Michigan Medicine — Ann Arbor
Commercial: 53 percent
Medicare: 20 percent
Medicaid: 14 percent
Medicare Advantage: 11 percent
Charity care: 1 percent
Uninsured / Bad debt: 1 percent
(12) Stanford Hospital — Palo Alto, Calif.
Commercial: 46 percent
Medicare: 34 percent
Medicaid: 13 percent
Medicare Advantage: 7 percent
Charity care: 0
Uninsured / Bad debt: 0
(13) Penn Presbyterian Medical Center — Philadelphia
Commercial: 46 percent
Medicare: 29 percent
Medicaid: 13 percent
Medicare Advantage: 12 percent
Uninsured / Bad debt: 1 percent
Charity Care: 0
(14) Brigham and Women's Hospital — Boston
Commercial: 53 percent
Medicare: 30 percent
Medicaid: 10 percent
Medicare Advantage: 6 percent
Charity Care: 1 percent
Uninsured / Bad debt: 1 percent
(15) Mayo Clinic Hospital — Phoenix
Commercial: 51 percent
Medicare: 42 percent
Medicare Advantage: 4 percent
Medicaid: 3 percent
Charity Care: 1 percent
Uninsured / Bad debt: 0 percent
(16) Houston Methodist Hospital
Commercial: 43 percent
Medicare: 33 percent
Medicare Advantage: 18 percent
Charity care:3 percent
Medicaid: 2 percent
Uninsured / Bad debt: 1 percent
(17 — tie) Barnes-Jewish Hospital — St. Louis
Commercial: 43 percent
Medicare: 29 percent
Medicare Advantage: 13 percent
Medicaid: 10 percent
Charity care: 4 percent
Uninsured / Bad debt: 1 percent
(17 — tie) Mount Sinai Hospital — New York City
Commercial: 33 percent
Medicaid: 28 percent
Medicare: 22 percent
Medicare Advantage: 15 percent
Charity care: 1 percent
Uninsured / Bad debt: 0 percent
(18) Rush University Medical Center — Chicago
Commercial: 41 percent
Medicare: 31 percent
Medicaid: 20 percent
Medicare Advantage: 6 percent
Charity care: 2 percent
Uninsured / Bad debt: 1 percent
(19) Vanderbilt University Medical Center — Nashville, Tenn.
Commercial: 47 percent
Medicare: 20 percent
Medicaid: 18 percent
Medicare Advantage: 10 percent
Charity care: 4 percent
Uninsured / Bad debt: 1 percent