3916 Ben Franklin Boulevard, Durham, NC, 27704 · (919) 956-9300
Beds
18
FY 2025
Star rating
Not rated
Patient survey: 4 of 5
Net patient revenue
$73.7M
FY 2025
Net income
$4.1M
Patient care margin 4.5%
Discharges
645
Occupancy 25.3%
Clinicians
149
Medicare clinicians who work here
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 | $73.7M | $70.4M | 4.5% | $4.1M | 645 | $7K | 25.7% | - |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.9% | US median 3.9% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 5.6% | US median 5.8% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 4.1% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.93 | US median 0.96 |
| Doctors always communicated well |
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.
| 2024 | $73.1M | $69.6M | 4.8% | $4.2M | 626 | $8K | 25.4% | 0.1% |
| 2023 | $70.9M | $62.1M | 12.5% | $9.4M | 504 | $104K | 32.3% | 0.7% |
| 2022 | $71.6M | $63.2M | 11.7% | $8.9M | 590 | $667K | 31.6% | 0.8% |
| 2021 | $67.9M | $57.4M | 15.4% | $13.8M | 646 | $570K | 37.7% | 1.4% |
| 2020 | $62.8M | $52.4M | 16.5% | $12.1M | 1,117 | $480K | 32.3% | 2.5% |
| 82% |
| US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 82% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 4 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 72% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 80% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 69% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 84% | US median 71% |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 15% | US median 15% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 91% | US median 79% |
| DRG 483 MAJOR JOINT OR LIMB REATTACHMENT PROCEDURES OF UPPER EXTREMITIES |
| 13 |
| $65,594.46 |
| $14,887.31 |
| $19,439.49 |
| DRG 455 COMBINED ANTERIOR AND POSTERIOR SPINAL FUSION WITHOUT CC/MCC | 12 | $123,917.33 | $31,831.17 | $33,846.56 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5491 Level 1 Intraocular Procedures | 591 | 397 | $1,656.59 | $1,751.67 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 415 | 402 | $10,038.74 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 122 | 118 | $5,141.35 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5116 Level 6 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 87 | 86 | $14,646.89 | $15,762.73 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 51 | 50 | $1,463.78 | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5431 Level 1 Nerve Procedures | 43 | 40 | $1,355.31 | $1,406.61 |
| APC 5492 Level 2 Intraocular Procedures | 42 | 38 | $2,913.01 | $3,116.50 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 36 | 35 | $2,296.77 | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5503 Level 3 Extraocular, Repair, and Plastic Eye Procedures | 25 | 25 | $1,679.37 | $1,780.31 |
| APC 5493 Level 3 Intraocular Procedures | 23 | 18 | $3,756.12 | $4,003.85 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 17 | 17 | $4,146.67 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5374 Level 4 Urology and Related Services | 15 | 15 | $2,505.37 | $2,629.24 |
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.
North Carolina Specialty Hospital is a for-profit short-term acute care hospital in Durham, NC with 18 beds, part of Surgery Center Holdings.
North Carolina Specialty Hospital in Durham, NC has 18 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 24 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 645 inpatients that year, with 25.3% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-12-31), North Carolina Specialty Hospital reported net patient revenue of $73.7M and operating expenses of $70.4M, a margin on patient care of 4.5%. After other income and expenses its net income was $4.1M (5.5% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
North Carolina Specialty Hospital is part of Surgery Center Holdings, a health system with 15 hospitals based in Brentwood, TN. It is a for-profit hospital.
North Carolina Specialty Hospital has no overall star rating, usually because it reports too few quality measures (for example small, specialty or federal hospitals).
No, North Carolina Specialty Hospital does not list emergency services.
149 Medicare clinicians list North Carolina Specialty Hospital as a hospital they work at, most often in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (Crna), Physician Assistant, Orthopedic Surgery.
In 2024, North Carolina Specialty Hospital had 87 Medicare inpatient stays in 4 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 470 (major hip and knee joint replacement or reattachment of lower extremity without mcc) with 40 stays; Medicare paid $10,941.13 per stay on average, compared with $14,289.25 across all hospitals.