Guam procedure costs
2 hospitals · 27 Medicare providers · 642 procedure codes with Guam locality adjustments.
The short answer
Guam has 2 hospitals and 27 Medicare-billing providers across 642 procedure codes. The average Medicare payment per procedure is $195.24; the average submitted (billed) charge is $582.09.
- Procedure codes
- 642
- Providers per hospital
- 13.5
- Billed-to-Medicare ratio
- 3.0x
- Markup rank
- #55 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.
Guam against every US state
Where the state's average Medicare payment per procedure falls, all 56 tracked jurisdictions
$195 higher than 29% 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 Guam
Highest average Medicare payment per procedure billed in Guam. Hover any bar for the exact figure; even these top procedures are billed well above what Medicare reimburses.
Top procedures by Medicare payment - Guam
The cost spread in Guam
The highest- and lowest-paying procedures Medicare reimbursed in Guam, side by side.
Most expensive
Least expensive
Top Procedures by Volume
Guam Healthcare Cost Landscape
CMS lists 2 hospitals in Guam across 2 cities. DEDEDO holds 1 (50%). The three densest cities together hold 100% of the state roster. Statewide that is 27 Medicare-billing providers, 13.5 per listed hospital.
1 hospitals carry a CMS overall star rating (0 five-star, 0 four-star, 0 three-star, 1 two-star, 0 one-star) ; five-star share among rated facilities is 0%. 1 hospitals in this extract have no published overall rating.
Facility-type mix: Acute Care Hospitals 2 (100%).
Among the 30 highest-volume procedure codes billed in Guam, Temporary Codes leads with 172.1K services (35% of this top-volume slice) across 3 codes. Next is Drugs (Administered) at 30%.
Submitted charges average $582.09 against $195.24 Medicare payment (3.0x billed-to-Medicare). That ratio ranks #55 of 56 jurisdictions with both figures in this extract. Average Medicare payment itself is #40 of 56.
Volume leaders are not the high-payment codes. Low Osmolar Contrast Material, 300-399 Mg/ml Iodine Concentration, Per Ml is in the top volume slice but not the highest Medicare payments; Removal Of Plaque In Artery Of Leg, Initial Vessel is in the high-payment set without matching volume rank.
These are CMS roster and claims aggregates for Guam, not a quote for any patient, plan, or visit. See the methodology and CMS Medicare Provider Charge Data.
Where Guam hospitals sit
City of the CMS hospital roster, not a travel or care recommendation. 2 distinct cities appear on 2 listed facilities.
| City | Hospitals | Share of state roster |
|---|---|---|
| DEDEDO | 1 | 50% |
| TAMUNING | 1 | 50% |
Nationwide states with similar hospital scale or Medicare payment
Two CMS-extract-derived peer sets for Guam: 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 ($195.24 here).
How Guam Compares Nationally
Guam's average Medicare payment is #40 of 56 in this extract. Submitted-over-Medicare markup ranks #55 of 56 (3.0x). Hospital-count peers are not listed at this roster size. Payment peers (nearest average Medicare payment to $195.24): Iowa $198.45, Montana $191.94, Wisconsin $201.63, New Hampshire $188.37.
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 Guam, not an out-of-pocket quote.
Related registry pages
Guam 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 Guam 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.