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Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2022
Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Schedule of Revenues from Third Party Payers, Uninsured and Other Payers | Our revenues by primary third-party payer classification and other (including uninsured patients) for the quarters ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 are summarized in the following table (dollars in millions):
|  | 2022 |  |  | Ratio |  |  | 2021 |  |  | Ratio |
Medicare |  | $ | 2,726 |  |  |  | 18.2 | % |  | $ | 2,559 |  |  |  | 18.3 | %
Managed Medicare |  |  | 2,324 |  |  |  | 15.6 |  |  |  | 2,053 |  |  |  | 14.7 |
Medicaid |  |  | 579 |  |  |  | 3.9 |  |  |  | 527 |  |  |  | 3.8 |
Managed Medicaid |  |  | 1,110 |  |  |  | 7.4 |  |  |  | 725 |  |  |  | 5.2 |
Managed care and insurers |  |  | 7,152 |  |  |  | 47.9 |  |  |  | 6,885 |  |  |  | 49.1 |
International (managed care and insurers) |  |  | 356 |  |  |  | 2.4 |  |  |  | 333 |  |  |  | 2.4 |
Other |  |  | 698 |  |  |  | 4.6 |  |  |  | 895 |  |  |  | 6.5 |
Revenues |  | $ | 14,945 |  |  |  | 100.0 | % |  | $ | 13,977 |  |  |  | 100.0 | %
Schedule of Estimated Cost of Uncompensated Care | A summary of the estimated cost of total uncompensated care for the quarters ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 follows (dollars in millions):
|  | 2022 |  |  | 2021 |
Patient care costs (salaries and benefits, supplies, other operating expense and depreciation and amortization) |  | $ | 12,744 |  |  | $ | 11,643 |
Cost-to-charges ratio (patient care costs as percentage of gross patient charges) |  |  | 11.3 | % |  |  | 11.4 | %
Total uncompensated care |  | $ | 7,005 |  |  | $ | 6,821 |
Multiply by the cost-to-charges ratio |  |  | 11.3 | % |  |  | 11.4 | %
Estimated cost of total uncompensated care |  | $ | 792 |  |  | $ | 778 |

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