462 Grider Street, Buffalo, NY, 14215 · (716) 898-3936
Beds
410
FY 2025
Star rating
2 of 5
Patient survey: 3 of 5
Net patient revenue
$766.9M
FY 2025
Net income
-$13.4M
Patient care margin -28.5%
Discharges
14,912
Occupancy 73.4%
Clinicians
506
From the hospital's yearly cost reports (fiscal years as the hospital reports them)
Locations are shown at the center of the ZIP code.
US dollars as reported. Patient care margin = net patient revenue minus operating expenses, before other income such as grants, donations and investments.
| Fiscal year | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Patient care margin | Net income | Discharges | Uncompensated care | Medicare days | Medicaid days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $766.9M | $985.5M | -28.5% | -$13.4M | 14,912 | $14.8M | 15.2% | 5.5% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate for COPD patients | 11% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 10.1% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4.1% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 12.9% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 11% | US median 11.6% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 19% |
Medicare clinicians who list this hospital, by specialty
Inpatient stays by diagnosis related group (DRG), 2024
Official US government data: hospital records, ownership records, yearly cost reports and quality measures, linked by the hospital's CCN and NPI. Financials are for fiscal years as reported by the hospital.
Medicare clinicians who work here
| 2024 | $794.2M | $917.9M | -15.6% | -$5.0M | 15,096 | $12.8M | 14.1% | 5.4% |
| 2023 | $680.0M | $873.6M | -28.5% | -$6.2M | 14,240 | $8.5M | 15.8% | 4.3% |
| 2022 | $604.4M | $738.6M | -22.2% | -$32.9M | 14,403 | $12.8M | 17.2% | 3.7% |
| 2021 | $636.1M | $720.9M | -13.3% | -$21.2M | 15,904 | $13.0M | 18.2% | 4.5% |
| 2020 | $555.5M | $745.1M | -34.1% | -$79.3M | 15,828 | $14.0M | 19.0% | 7.0% |
| US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.5% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 5% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 18.1% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 4% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 2.09 | US median 0.96 · worse |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.33 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.64 | US median 0.48 |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 0.51 | US median 0.72 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.67 | US median 0.60 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.25 | US median 0.40 · better |
| Doctors always communicated well | 72% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 78% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 3 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 43% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 66% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 61% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 66% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 8% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 325 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 5% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 71% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 90% | US median 79% |
| DRG 291 HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC |
| 60 |
| $37,333.10 |
| $12,335.70 |
| $10,022.34 |
| DRG 481 HIP AND FEMUR PROCEDURES EXCEPT MAJOR JOINT WITH CC | 54 | $52,459.43 | $19,266.81 | $15,801.33 |
| DRG 189 PULMONARY EDEMA AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE | 44 | $40,257.48 | $11,844.43 | $9,973.97 |
| DRG 698 OTHER KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT DIAGNOSES WITH MCC | 39 | $51,250.23 | $15,927.28 | $13,076.55 |
| DRG 683 RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 38 | $28,868.50 | $8,327.47 | $6,629.69 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 34 | $25,779.94 | $7,689.32 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 552 MEDICAL BACK PROBLEMS WITHOUT MCC | 32 | $35,893.53 | $8,894.44 | $7,114.44 |
| DRG 470 MAJOR HIP AND KNEE JOINT REPLACEMENT OR REATTACHMENT OF LOWER EXTREMITY WITHOUT MCC | 32 | $35,825.19 | $17,921.41 | $14,289.25 |
| DRG 493 LOWER EXTREMITY AND HUMERUS PROCEDURES EXCEPT HIP, FOOT AND FEMUR WITH CC | 31 | $52,901.55 | $21,144.81 | $18,731.31 |
| DRG 603 CELLULITIS WITHOUT MCC | 27 | $24,541.04 | $8,206.30 | $6,446.25 |
| DRG 699 OTHER KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT DIAGNOSES WITH CC | 26 | $28,796.81 | $10,295.50 | $8,250.73 |
| DRG 650 KIDNEY TRANSPLANT WITH HEMODIALYSIS WITH MCC | 25 | $252,862.36 | $45,175.40 | $45,823.17 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 24 | $49,178.17 | $15,538.83 | $12,667.88 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 252 | 229 | $2,284.20 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 123 | 120 | $12,018.83 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5164 Level 4 ENT Procedures | 117 | 112 | $2,634.66 | $2,217.17 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 96 | 84 | $1,285.11 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5192 Level 2 Endovascular Procedures | 72 | 44 | $4,761.18 | $4,338.16 |
| APC 5116 Level 6 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 62 | 60 | $17,787.31 | $15,762.73 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 62 | 58 | $5,874.62 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | 55 | 49 | $2,526.54 | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 49 | 47 | $2,729.42 | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5375 Level 5 Urology and Related Services | 45 | 41 | $4,176.71 | $3,917.51 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 43 | 37 | $1,713.79 | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5372 Level 2 Urology and Related Services | 38 | 34 | $534.85 | $502.15 |
Reported payments to this teaching hospital
Official US government data on Original Medicare hospital stays and outpatient services; groups with fewer than 11 cases are not published. Payments are those drug and device companies must report.
Erie County Medical Center is a government-owned short-term acute care hospital in Buffalo, NY with 410 beds, part of The Erie County Medical Center Corporation and a 2-star overall rating.
Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, NY has 410 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 526 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 14,912 inpatients that year, with 73.4% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-12-31), Erie County Medical Center reported net patient revenue of $766.9M and operating expenses of $985.5M, a margin on patient care of -28.5%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$13.4M (-1.4% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Erie County Medical Center is part of The Erie County Medical Center Corporation, a health system with 1 hospitals based in Buffalo, NY. It is a government-owned hospital.
Erie County Medical Center has an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 3 out of 5 stars in the patient survey. 0 death rate measures are better and 1 worse than the national rate.
Yes, Erie County Medical Center provides emergency services.
506 Medicare clinicians list Erie County Medical Center as a hospital they work at, most often in Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Internal Medicine.
In 2024, Erie County Medical Center had 1,263 Medicare inpatient stays in 55 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 90 stays; Medicare paid $19,636.41 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $50K in payments to Erie County Medical Center as a teaching hospital ($27K general and $24K for research) from 5 companies.