Georgia procedure costs
148 hospitals · 5,114 Medicare providers · 4,747 procedure codes with Georgia locality adjustments.
The short answer
Georgia has 148 hospitals and 5,114 Medicare-billing providers across 4,747 procedure codes. The average Medicare payment per procedure is $260.01; the average submitted (billed) charge is $1,605.93.
- Procedure codes
- 4,747
- Providers per hospital
- 34.6
- Billed-to-Medicare ratio
- 6.2x
- Markup rank
- #13 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.
Georgia against every US state
Where the state's average Medicare payment per procedure falls, all 56 tracked jurisdictions
$260 higher than 75% 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 Georgia
Highest average Medicare payment per procedure billed in Georgia. Hover any bar for the exact figure; even these top procedures are billed well above what Medicare reimburses.
Top procedures by Medicare payment - Georgia
The cost spread in Georgia
The highest- and lowest-paying procedures Medicare reimbursed in Georgia, side by side.
Most expensive
Least expensive
Top Procedures by Volume
Georgia Healthcare Cost Landscape
CMS lists 148 hospitals in Georgia across 116 cities. ATLANTA holds 9 (6%). The three densest cities together hold 13% of the state roster. Statewide that is 5,114 Medicare-billing providers, 34.6 per listed hospital.
79 hospitals carry a CMS overall star rating (4 five-star, 14 four-star, 22 three-star, 28 two-star, 11 one-star) ; five-star share among rated facilities is 5%. 69 hospitals in this extract have no published overall rating.
Facility-type mix: Acute Care Hospitals 94 (64%); Critical Access Hospitals 30 (20%); Psychiatric 13 (9%); Acute Care - Department of Defense 3 (2%).
Among the 30 highest-volume procedure codes billed in Georgia, Drugs (Administered) leads with 19.3M services (43% of this top-volume slice) across 12 codes. Next is Medical Supplies at 13%.
Submitted charges average $1,605.93 against $260.01 Medicare payment (6.2x billed-to-Medicare). That ratio ranks #13 of 56 jurisdictions with both figures in this extract. Average Medicare payment itself is #14 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; Sipuleucel-T, Minimum Of 50 Million Autologous Cd54+ Cells Activated With Pap-Gm-Csf, Including Leukapheresis And All Other Preparatory Procedures, Per Infusion is in the high-payment set without matching volume rank.
These are CMS roster and claims aggregates for Georgia, not a quote for any patient, plan, or visit. See the methodology and CMS Medicare Provider Charge Data.
Where Georgia hospitals sit
City of the CMS hospital roster, not a travel or care recommendation. 116 distinct cities appear on 148 listed facilities.
| City | Hospitals | Share of state roster |
|---|---|---|
| ATLANTA | 9 | 6% |
| AUGUSTA | 5 | 3% |
| SAVANNAH | 5 | 3% |
| COLUMBUS | 4 | 3% |
| DECATUR | 3 | 2% |
| MACON | 3 | 2% |
| ATHENS | 2 | 1% |
| DUBLIN | 2 | 1% |
Nationwide states with similar hospital scale or Medicare payment
Two CMS-extract-derived peer sets for Georgia: nearest hospital inventory and nearest statewide average Medicare payment. Not clinical substitutes: registry-scale and payment neighborhoods only.
Similar CMS hospital count
Nearest states with ≥5 hospitals (148 here).
Similar average Medicare payment
Nearest states with published averages ($260.01 here).
Hospitals in Georgia
How Georgia Compares Nationally
Georgia's average Medicare payment is #14 of 56 in this extract. Submitted-over-Medicare markup ranks #13 of 56 (6.2x). Hospital-count peers (nearest CMS roster size to 148): Michigan 148, Indiana 150, Wisconsin 142, Kansas 138. Payment peers (nearest average Medicare payment to $260.01): Alaska $257.79, Tennessee $263.44, Ohio $255.69, Missouri $255.25.
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 Georgia, not an out-of-pocket quote.
Related registry pages
Georgia 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 Georgia 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.