1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219 · (412) 232-8111
Beds
335
FY 2025
Star rating
4 of 5
Patient survey: 3 of 5
Net patient revenue
$469.0M
FY 2025
Net income
-$91.9M
Patient care margin -30.7%
Discharges
12,793
Occupancy 59.9%
Clinicians
770
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 | $469.0M | $612.9M | -30.7% | -$91.9M | 12,793 | $12.2M | 14.2% | 3.2% |
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 | 6.4% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 12.7% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 10.9% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.4% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 12.4% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 9.7% | US median 11.6% |
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 | $414.7M | $591.2M | -42.6% | -$130.1M | 11,435 | $9.6M | 14.5% | 3.1% |
| 2023 | $384.6M | $545.8M | -41.9% | -$138.4M | 10,866 | $7.5M | 16.3% | 1.3% |
| 2022 | $405.0M | $507.0M | -25.2% | -$82.6M | 12,249 | $7.6M | 15.7% | 2.5% |
| 2021 | $414.5M | $472.0M | -13.9% | -$41.0M | 14,070 | $6.8M | 19.2% | 2.4% |
| 2020 | $383.4M | $447.3M | -16.7% | -$29.5M | 13,654 | $9.5M | 20.6% | 3.7% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 19.8% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 14.3% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 20.3% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 18.3% | US median 17.2% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.99 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.24 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.33 | US median 0.48 · better |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 0.28 | US median 0.72 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 1.49 | US median 0.60 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.61 | US median 0.40 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 76% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 80% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 3 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 54% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 74% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 71% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 72% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 1% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 225 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 19% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 68% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 92% | US median 79% |
| 43 |
| $72,008.49 |
| $7,933.93 |
| $7,474.08 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 38 | $44,900.03 | $6,401.71 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 481 HIP AND FEMUR PROCEDURES EXCEPT MAJOR JOINT WITH CC | 37 | $126,672.51 | $16,113.35 | $15,801.33 |
| DRG 552 MEDICAL BACK PROBLEMS WITHOUT MCC | 36 | $65,241.78 | $7,413.47 | $7,114.44 |
| DRG 291 HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 31 | $53,336.97 | $10,097.10 | $10,022.34 |
| DRG 897 ALCOHOL, DRUG ABUSE OR DEPENDENCE WITHOUT REHABILITATION THERAPY WITHOUT MCC | 31 | $31,786.19 | $6,414.90 | $7,306.07 |
| DRG 184 MAJOR CHEST TRAUMA WITH CC | 28 | $60,100.79 | $7,920.54 | $8,198.25 |
| DRG 460 SPINAL FUSION EXCEPT CERVICAL WITHOUT MCC | 25 | $164,298.84 | $27,859.52 | $27,891.78 |
| DRG 083 TRAUMATIC STUPOR AND COMA >1 HOUR WITH CC | 23 | $96,001.48 | $9,687.22 | $11,369.52 |
| DRG 057 DEGENERATIVE NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 23 | $51,546.91 | $9,729.74 | $11,625.30 |
| DRG 023 CRANIOTOMY WITH MAJOR DEVICE IMPLANT OR ACUTE COMPLEX CNS PRINCIPAL DIAGNOSIS WITH MCC O | 22 | $224,193.86 | $41,963.36 | $47,977.83 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 22 | $66,952.36 | $13,106.68 | $12,667.88 |
| DRG 493 LOWER EXTREMITY AND HUMERUS PROCEDURES EXCEPT HIP, FOOT AND FEMUR WITH CC | 20 | $145,170.60 | $18,615.15 | $18,731.31 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5491 Level 1 Intraocular Procedures | 745 | 515 | $1,645.78 | $1,751.67 |
| APC 5492 Level 2 Intraocular Procedures | 467 | 418 | $2,875.63 | $3,116.50 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 205 | 189 | $1,903.69 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5503 Level 3 Extraocular, Repair, and Plastic Eye Procedures | 70 | 66 | $1,660.23 | $1,780.31 |
| APC 5493 Level 3 Intraocular Procedures | 64 | 59 | $3,715.99 | $4,003.85 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 58 | 52 | $1,354.10 | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 51 | 41 | $1,444.84 | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5374 Level 4 Urology and Related Services | 43 | 38 | $2,432.99 | $2,629.24 |
| APC 5375 Level 5 Urology and Related Services | 41 | 41 | $3,682.20 | $3,917.51 |
| APC 5154 Level 4 Airway Endoscopy | 38 | 33 | $2,557.55 | $2,832.62 |
| APC 5184 Level 4 Vascular Procedures | 34 | 33 | $3,794.77 | $3,945.82 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 32 | 31 | $1,153.75 | $1,219.56 |
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.
UPMC Mercy is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Pittsburgh, PA with 335 beds, part of UPMC and a 4-star overall rating.
UPMC Mercy in Pittsburgh, PA has 335 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 391 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 12,793 inpatients that year, with 59.9% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), UPMC Mercy reported net patient revenue of $469.0M and operating expenses of $612.9M, a margin on patient care of -30.7%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$91.9M (-17.6% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
UPMC Mercy is part of UPMC, a health system with 29 hospitals based in Pittsburgh, PA. It is a nonprofit hospital.
UPMC Mercy has an overall rating of 4 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, UPMC Mercy provides emergency services.
770 Medicare clinicians list UPMC Mercy as a hospital they work at, most often in Diagnostic Radiology, Internal Medicine, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (Crna).
In 2024, UPMC Mercy had 933 Medicare inpatient stays in 44 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 85 stays; Medicare paid $15,320.02 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $144K in payments to UPMC Mercy as a teaching hospital ($144K general and - for research) from 7 companies.