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Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2024
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, 2024 and 2023 are summarized in the following table (dollars in millions):
|  | 2024 |  |  | Ratio |  |  | 2023 |  |  | Ratio |
Medicare |  | $ | 2,838 |  |  |  | 16.4 | % |  | $ | 2,738 |  |  |  | 17.6 | %
Managed Medicare |  |  | 3,026 |  |  |  | 17.4 |  |  |  | 2,559 |  |  |  | 16.4 |
Medicaid |  |  | 1,000 |  |  |  | 5.8 |  |  |  | 735 |  |  |  | 4.7 |
Managed Medicaid |  |  | 978 |  |  |  | 5.6 |  |  |  | 913 |  |  |  | 5.9 |
Managed care and insurers |  |  | 8,545 |  |  |  | 49.2 |  |  |  | 7,623 |  |  |  | 48.9 |
International (managed care and insurers) |  |  | 412 |  |  |  | 2.4 |  |  |  | 375 |  |  |  | 2.4 |
Other |  |  | 540 |  |  |  | 3.2 |  |  |  | 648 |  |  |  | 4.1 |
Revenues |  | $ | 17,339 |  |  |  | 100.0 | % |  | $ | 15,591 |  |  |  | 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, 2024 and 2023 follows (dollars in millions):
|  | 2024 |  |  | 2023 |
Patient care costs (salaries and benefits, supplies, other operating expenses and depreciation and amortization) |  | $ | 14,779 |  |  | $ | 13,157 |
Cost-to-charges ratio (patient care costs as percentage of gross patient charges) |  |  | 10.1 | % |  |  | 10.4 | %
Total uncompensated care |  | $ | 10,002 |  |  | $ | 7,991 |
Multiply by the cost-to-charges ratio |  |  | 10.1 | % |  |  | 10.4 | %
Estimated cost of total uncompensated care |  | $ | 1,010 |  |  | $ | 831 |

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