Northern Mariana Islands procedure costs
1 hospitals · 2 Medicare providers · 78 procedure codes with Northern Mariana Islands locality adjustments.
The short answer
Northern Mariana Islands has 1 hospitals and 2 Medicare-billing providers across 78 procedure codes. The average Medicare payment per procedure is $81.42; the average submitted (billed) charge is $387.79.
- Procedure codes
- 78
- Providers per hospital
- 2.0
- Billed-to-Medicare ratio
- 4.8x
- Markup rank
- #50 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.
Northern Mariana Islands against every US state
Where the state's average Medicare payment per procedure falls, all 56 tracked jurisdictions
$81 higher than 2% 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 Northern Mariana Islands
Highest average Medicare payment per procedure billed in Northern Mariana Islands. Hover any bar for the exact figure; even these top procedures are billed well above what Medicare reimburses.
Top procedures by Medicare payment - Northern Mariana Islands
The cost spread in Northern Mariana Islands
The highest- and lowest-paying procedures Medicare reimbursed in Northern Mariana Islands, side by side.
Most expensive
Least expensive
Top Procedures by Volume
Northern Mariana Islands Healthcare Cost Landscape
CMS lists 1 hospitals in Northern Mariana Islands across 1 cities. GARAPAN holds 1 (100%). The three densest cities together hold 100% of the state roster. Statewide that is 2 Medicare-billing providers, 2.0 per listed hospital.
Facility-type mix: Acute Care Hospitals 1 (100%).
Among the 30 highest-volume procedure codes billed in Northern Mariana Islands, Medical Supplies leads with 2.6K services (19% of this top-volume slice) across 1 codes. Next is Office Visit at 19%.
Submitted charges average $387.79 against $81.42 Medicare payment (4.8x billed-to-Medicare). That ratio ranks #50 of 56 jurisdictions with both figures in this extract. Average Medicare payment itself is #55 of 56.
Volume leaders are not the high-payment codes. Ground Mileage, Per Statute Mile is in the top volume slice but not the highest Medicare payments; Complex Removal Of Cataract With Insertion Of Prosthetic Lens is in the high-payment set without matching volume rank.
These are CMS roster and claims aggregates for Northern Mariana Islands, not a quote for any patient, plan, or visit. See the methodology and CMS Medicare Provider Charge Data.
Where Northern Mariana Islands 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 |
|---|---|---|
| GARAPAN | 1 | 100% |
Nationwide states with similar hospital scale or Medicare payment
Two CMS-extract-derived peer sets for Northern Mariana Islands: 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 ($81.42 here).
Hospitals in Northern Mariana Islands
How Northern Mariana Islands Compares Nationally
Northern Mariana Islands's average Medicare payment is #55 of 56 in this extract. Submitted-over-Medicare markup ranks #50 of 56 (4.8x). Hospital-count peers are not listed at this roster size. Payment peers (nearest average Medicare payment to $81.42): 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 Northern Mariana Islands, not an out-of-pocket quote.
Related registry pages
Northern Mariana Islands 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 Northern Mariana Islands 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.