American Samoa procedure costs
1 hospitals · 0 Medicare providers · 3 procedure codes with American Samoa locality adjustments.
The short answer
American Samoa has 1 hospitals and 0 Medicare-billing providers across 3 procedure codes. The average Medicare payment per procedure is $75.19; the average submitted (billed) charge is $1,444.67.
- Procedure codes
- 3
- Providers per hospital
- 0.0
- Billed-to-Medicare ratio
- 19.2x
- Markup rank
- #1 of 56
Source: CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, 2023.
About this dataset, nationwide
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the 2023 Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners dataset records payments for 9,297 procedure codes billed across 5,426 hospitals in 56 states and territories; see our methodology for how each figure is sourced and computed.
American Samoa against every US state
Where the state's average Medicare payment per procedure falls, all 56 tracked jurisdictions
$75 higher than 0% of 56 states
Each bar is a $25-wide band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, 2023
The priciest procedures in American Samoa
Highest average Medicare payment per procedure billed in American Samoa. Hover any bar for the exact figure; even these top procedures are billed well above what Medicare reimburses.
Top procedures by Medicare payment - American Samoa
The cost spread in American Samoa
The highest- and lowest-paying procedures Medicare reimbursed in American Samoa, side by side.
Top Procedures by Volume
| Procedure | Medicare | Services |
|---|---|---|
| Emergency Department Visit With Moderate Level Of Medical Decision Making | $71.91 | 51 |
| Emergency Department Visit With Low Level Of Medical Decision Making | $43.45 | 23 |
| Emergency Department Visit With High Level Of Medical Decision Making | $110.21 | 12 |
American Samoa Healthcare Cost Landscape
CMS lists 1 hospitals in American Samoa across 1 cities. PAGO PAGO holds 1 (100%). The three densest cities together hold 100% of the state roster. Statewide that is 0 Medicare-billing providers, 0.0 per listed hospital.
Facility-type mix: Acute Care Hospitals 1 (100%).
Among the 3 highest-volume procedure codes billed in American Samoa, Emergency leads with 86 services (100% of this top-volume slice) across 3 codes.
Submitted charges average $1,444.67 against $75.19 Medicare payment (19.2x billed-to-Medicare). That ratio ranks #1 of 56 jurisdictions with both figures in this extract. Average Medicare payment itself is #56 of 56.
These are CMS roster and claims aggregates for American Samoa, not a quote for any patient, plan, or visit. See the methodology and CMS Medicare Provider Charge Data.
Where American Samoa hospitals sit
City of the CMS hospital roster, not a travel or care recommendation. 1 distinct cities appear on 1 listed facilities.
| City | Hospitals | Share of state roster |
|---|---|---|
| PAGO PAGO | 1 | 100% |
Nationwide states with similar hospital scale or Medicare payment
Two CMS-extract-derived peer sets for American Samoa: nearest hospital inventory and nearest statewide average Medicare payment. Not clinical substitutes: registry-scale and payment neighborhoods only.
Similar average Medicare payment
Nearest states with published averages ($75.19 here).
Hospitals in American Samoa
How American Samoa Compares Nationally
American Samoa's average Medicare payment is #56 of 56 in this extract. Submitted-over-Medicare markup ranks #1 of 56 (19.2x). Hospital-count peers are not listed at this roster size. Payment peers (nearest average Medicare payment to $75.19): Puerto Rico $114.18, Vermont $130.98, Maine $149.34, North Dakota $150.79.
Those peer sets are registry neighborhoods, not clinical substitutes. Markup rank and payment rank can diverge: a jurisdiction can sit high on billed-to-Medicare while sitting mid-pack on payment, or the reverse. Figures remain CMS averages for American Samoa, not an out-of-pocket quote.
Related registry pages
American Samoa averages sit on two maps: Medicare payment and submitted-over-Medicare markup.
- Procedure codes billed in this extract, in national volume order. Browse procedures
- State payment rank versus markup rank on the rankings hub. Rankings
- How these figures are sourced. Methodology
Figures here are American Samoa CMS averages, not a quote for any patient, plan, or visit.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainProcedure is rendered directly from CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.