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Accounting Policies (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 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 years ended December 31, are summarized in the following table (dollars in millions):
|  | Years Ended December 31, |
|  | 2024 |  |  | Ratio |  |  | 2023 |  |  | Ratio |  |  | 2022 |  |  | Ratio |
Medicare |  | $ | 10,780 |  |  |  | 15.3 | % |  | $ | 10,585 |  |  |  | 16.3 | % |  | $ | 10,447 |  |  |  | 17.3 | %
Managed Medicare |  |  | 11,987 |  |  |  | 17.0 |  |  |  | 10,496 |  |  |  | 16.2 |  |  |  | 9,201 |  |  |  | 15.3 |
Medicaid |  |  | 4,678 |  |  |  | 6.6 |  |  |  | 3,606 |  |  |  | 5.6 |  |  |  | 2,636 |  |  |  | 4.4 |
Managed Medicaid |  |  | 3,980 |  |  |  | 5.6 |  |  |  | 3,879 |  |  |  | 6.0 |  |  |  | 3,998 |  |  |  | 6.6 |
Managed care and other insurers |  |  | 34,954 |  |  |  | 49.5 |  |  |  | 31,819 |  |  |  | 49.0 |  |  |  | 29,120 |  |  |  | 48.3 |
International (managed care and other insurers) |  |  | 1,682 |  |  |  | 2.4 |  |  |  | 1,509 |  |  |  | 2.3 |  |  |  | 1,317 |  |  |  | 2.2 |
Other |  |  | 2,542 |  |  |  | 3.6 |  |  |  | 3,074 |  |  |  | 4.6 |  |  |  | 3,514 |  |  |  | 5.9 |
Revenues |  | $ | 70,603 |  |  |  | 100.0 | % |  | $ | 64,968 |  |  |  | 100.0 | % |  | $ | 60,233 |  |  |  | 100.0 | %
Schedule of Estimated Cost of Uncompensated Care | A summary of the estimated cost of total uncompensated care for the years ended December 31, follows (dollars in millions):
|  | 2024 |  |  | 2023 |  |  | 2022 |
Patient care costs (salaries and benefits, supplies, other operating expenses and depreciation and amortization) |  | $ | 60,056 |  |  | $ | 55,341 |  |  | $ | 51,180 |
Cost-to-charges ratio (patient care costs as percentage of gross patient charges) |  |  | 10.1 | % |  |  | 10.5 | % |  |  | 11.0 | %
Total uncompensated care |  | $ | 43,231 |  |  | $ | 35,426 |  |  | $ | 31,734 |
Multiply by the cost-to-charges ratio |  |  | 10.1 | % |  |  | 10.5 | % |  |  | 11.0 | %
Estimated cost of total uncompensated care |  | $ | 4,366 |  |  | $ | 3,720 |  |  | $ | 3,491 |

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