Adventist Health Sierra Vista
1010 MURRAY ST, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
Adventist Health Sierra Vista in San Luis Obispo, CA has an average Medicare payment of $21,146 and a Value Score of C (54/100). Compare prices for 15 procedures. Based on CMS inpatient data.
About Adventist Health Sierra Vista
The CMS Hospital Compare program rates Adventist Health Sierra Vista at 3 stars, the median bucket on a 1-to-5 scale that aggregates dozens of safety, outcome, and experience measures. The CMS Hospital Compare measures break roughly evenly between better- and worse-than-benchmark performance, which is the modal pattern across U.S. hospitals.
Average payment per documented procedure at Adventist Health Sierra Vista is $21,146 — among the higher-cost facilities in the dataset. Combined cost-and-quality value comes to 54/100 — a middling result, reflecting either average quality at average cost or trade-offs in one direction.
Adventist Health Sierra Vista is investor-owned — a proprietary hospital, the minority ownership pattern in U.S. acute care. For-profit hospitals are more concentrated in some regions (Florida, Texas, Nevada) than others. 15 distinct procedures are documented in CMS payment files for Adventist Health Sierra Vista. Top examples: Vaginal Delivery without Complicating Diagnoses, Pulmonary Edema and Respiratory Failure, Esophagitis, Gastroenteritis with MCC. The facility operates a 24-hour emergency department.
Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog — Hospital Compare quality measures, CMS Inpatient Payment data files.
Procedure Prices
| Procedure (DRG) | Total Payment |
|---|---|
Vaginal Delivery without Complicating Diagnoses DRG 775 · Obstetric | $7,770 |
Pulmonary Edema and Respiratory Failure DRG 189 · Respiratory | $22,816 |
Esophagitis, Gastroenteritis with MCC DRG 392 · Digestive | $19,242 |
Septicemia or Severe Sepsis without Ventilator DRG 871 · Infectious | $16,440 |
Major Hip and Knee Joint Replacement DRG 470 · Orthopedic | $45,900 |
Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with MCC DRG 193 · Respiratory | $22,569 |
Intracranial Hemorrhage or Cerebral Infarction with MCC DRG 065 · Neurological | $21,474 |
Percutaneous Cardiovascular Procedure with Drug-Eluting Stent DRG 247 · Cardiac | $33,267 |
Kidney and Urinary Tract Infections without MCC DRG 690 · Renal | $10,632 |
Heart Failure and Shock with MCC DRG 291 · Cardiac | $22,118 |
Simple Pneumonia and Pleurisy with CC DRG 194 · Respiratory | $17,097 |
Signs and Symptoms without MCC DRG 948 · Other | $8,512 |
Heart Failure and Shock with CC DRG 292 · Cardiac | $14,230 |
Spinal Fusion (Non-Cervical) with MCC DRG 460 · Orthopedic | $39,052 |
Renal Failure with CC DRG 683 · Renal | $16,068 |
Pricing data from CMS Hospital Price Transparency. Quality ratings from CMS Hospital Compare.
How Adventist Health Sierra Vista Compares
Adventist Health Sierra Vista has an average Medicare payment of $21,146, 2% below the California state average of $21,491. That is 33% higher than the national hospital average of $15,878. Most of its procedures fall under Respiratory, where the typical payment is $22,953 (8% below this hospital's average). Its Value Score of C (54/100) reflects a blend of price percentile, CMS quality rating, and patient outcome measures.
Adventist Health Sierra Vista Cost & Quality FAQ
Adventist Health Sierra Vista has an average payment of $21,146 across 15 priced procedures. Costs vary significantly by procedure, compare individual prices in the procedure table above.
Adventist Health Sierra Vista has a CMS star rating of 3 out of 5. Quality measures include mortality rates, safety incidents, and readmission rates from Medicare data.
Adventist Health Sierra Vista has a Value Score of C (54/100). This score combines cost efficiency, quality ratings, and patient outcomes to help compare hospitals. Proprietary facilities like this one are acute care hospitals.
Yes, Adventist Health Sierra Vista offers emergency services. The hospital is located at 1010 MURRAY ST, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405. Phone: (850) 546-7600.
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