6720 Bertner Ave, Ste Mc1-266, Houston, TX, 77030 · (832) 355-1000
Beds
643
FY 2025
Star rating
4 of 5
Patient survey: 2 of 5
Net patient revenue
$1.45B
FY 2025
Net income
-$5.7M
Patient care margin -2.2%
Discharges
27,165
Occupancy 77.3%
Clinicians
1,171
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 | $1.45B | $1.48B | -2.2% | -$5.7M | 27,165 | $37.3M | 14.3% | 0.7% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate after heart bypass surgery | 2.8% | US median 2.3% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 10.4% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 7.2% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 2.9% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 11.7% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 10.6% | 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 | $1.27B | $1.34B | -5.8% | -$48.0M | 23,355 | $35.7M | 16.5% | 0.7% |
| 2023 | $1.10B | $1.21B | -9.5% | -$64.8M | 21,534 | $41.3M | 19.1% | 6.9% |
| 2022 | $1.05B | $1.12B | -7.1% | -$56.9M | 20,903 | $36.7M | 20.8% | 7.3% |
| 2021 | $1.02B | $1.06B | -3.7% | $6.0M | 21,350 | $36.7M | 21.4% | 7.2% |
| 2020 | $916.3M | $1.01B | -9.8% | -$45.5M | 21,393 | $42.5M | 24.3% | 6.7% |
| Readmission rate after heart bypass surgery | 11.2% | US median 10.9% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20.7% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 14.1% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 20% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 7.2% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.1% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 3.7% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 1.03 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.16 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.77 | US median 0.48 |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 0.32 | US median 0.72 · better |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.16 | US median 0.60 · better |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.42 | US median 0.40 · better |
| Doctors always communicated well | 79% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 74% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 2 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 60% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 70% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 59% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 66% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 2% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 165 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 18% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 70% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 83% | US median 79% |
| 73 |
| $400,442.12 |
| $41,232.15 |
| $40,566.75 |
| DRG 219 CARDIAC VALVE AND OTHER MAJOR CARDIOTHORACIC PROCEDURES WITHOUT CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION | 72 | $531,274.51 | $72,805.61 | $69,386.82 |
| DRG 235 CORONARY BYPASS WITHOUT CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION WITH MCC | 61 | $300,658.02 | $39,121.82 | $45,289.81 |
| DRG 699 OTHER KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT DIAGNOSES WITH CC | 59 | $79,488.53 | $9,840.17 | $8,250.73 |
| DRG 280 ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, DISCHARGED ALIVE WITH MCC | 56 | $118,584.75 | $13,888.96 | $12,400.10 |
| DRG 064 INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE OR CEREBRAL INFARCTION WITH MCC | 52 | $135,064.60 | $14,442.29 | $15,695.20 |
| DRG 698 OTHER KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT DIAGNOSES WITH MCC | 48 | $76,783.73 | $12,721.52 | $13,076.55 |
| DRG 853 INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES WITH O.R. PROCEDURES WITH MCC | 48 | $335,191.83 | $49,210.33 | $40,556.82 |
| DRG 392 ESOPHAGITIS, GASTROENTERITIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DIGESTIVE DISORDERS WITHOUT MCC | 46 | $52,304.85 | $6,023.35 | $5,662.18 |
| DRG 003 ECMO OR TRACHEOSTOMY WITH MV >96 HOURS OR PRINCIPAL DIAGNOSIS EXCEPT FACE, MOUTH AND NEC | 43 | $1,628,859.91 | $260,999.60 | $209,579.56 |
| DRG 286 CIRCULATORY DISORDERS EXCEPT AMI, WITH CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION WITH MCC | 43 | $183,757.51 | $22,348.93 | $17,632.75 |
| DRG 682 RENAL FAILURE WITH MCC | 42 | $67,587.69 | $10,855.74 | $11,457.18 |
| DRG 314 OTHER CIRCULATORY SYSTEM DIAGNOSES WITH MCC | 41 | $106,432.76 | $17,584.76 | $17,601.55 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5491 Level 1 Intraocular Procedures | 806 | 531 | $1,703.03 | $1,751.67 |
| APC 5492 Level 2 Intraocular Procedures | 292 | 249 | $2,971.04 | $3,116.50 |
| APC 5191 Level 1 Endovascular Procedures | 259 | 257 | $2,123.11 | $2,207.96 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 250 | 226 | $1,382.50 | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5213 Level 3 Electrophysiologic Procedures | 211 | 202 | $20,239.01 | $21,117.37 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 170 | 160 | $1,996.92 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 166 | 157 | $1,172.99 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5193 Level 3 Endovascular Procedures | 122 | 114 | $8,432.24 | $8,873.86 |
| APC 5154 Level 4 Airway Endoscopy | 113 | 85 | $2,650.20 | $2,832.62 |
| APC 5165 Level 5 ENT Procedures | 108 | 107 | $4,125.18 | $4,436.36 |
| APC 5503 Level 3 Extraocular, Repair, and Plastic Eye Procedures | 93 | 91 | $1,718.34 | $1,780.31 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 93 | 92 | $5,113.31 | $5,338.75 |
Reported payments to this teaching hospital
| Company | Payments | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 11 | $25K |
| Daiichi Sankyo Company LTD 4568.T | 1 | $10K |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ANIP | 1 | $9,906 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. 4568.T | 1 | $6,000 |
| Medtronic, Inc. MDT | 1 | $5,102 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $5,000 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. JNJ | 1 | $3,000 |
| Immucor, Inc. | 1 | $1,443 |
| Leica Microsystems Inc. | 3 | $1,028 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $1,000 |
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.
Baylor St Lukes Medical Center is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Houston, TX with 643 beds, part of CommonSpirit Health and a 4-star overall rating.
Baylor St Lukes Medical Center in Houston, TX has 643 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 881 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 27,165 inpatients that year, with 77.3% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Baylor St Lukes Medical Center reported net patient revenue of $1.45B and operating expenses of $1.48B, a margin on patient care of -2.2%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$5.7M (-0.4% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Baylor St Lukes Medical Center is part of CommonSpirit Health, a health system with 129 hospitals based in San Francisco, CA. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Baylor St Lukes Medical Center has an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 2 out of 5 stars in the patient survey. 2 death rate measures are better and 0 worse than the national rate.
Yes, Baylor St Lukes Medical Center provides emergency services.
1,171 Medicare clinicians list Baylor St Lukes Medical Center as a hospital they work at, most often in Internal Medicine, Nurse Practitioner, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (Crna).
In 2024, Baylor St Lukes Medical Center had 2,802 Medicare inpatient stays in 102 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 193 stays; Medicare paid $15,521.09 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $68K in payments to Baylor St Lukes Medical Center as a teaching hospital ($28K general and $40K for research) from 12 companies.