Accounting Policies (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

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,
	2019		Ratio			2018		Ratio			2017		Ratio
Medicare	$	10,798		21.0	%	$	9,831		21.1	%	$	9,285		21.3	%
Managed Medicare		6,452		12.6			5,497		11.8			4,680		10.7
Medicaid		1,572		3.1			1,358		2.9			1,316		3.0
Managed Medicaid		2,450		4.8			2,403		5.1			2,165		5.0
Managed care and other insurers		26,544		51.6			24,467		52.4			23,342		53.5
International (managed care and other insurers)		1,162		2.3			1,156		2.5			1,097		2.5
Other		2,358		4.6			1,965		4.2			1,729		4.0

Revenues	$	51,336		100.0	%	$	46,677		100.0	%	$	43,614		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):


	2019			2018			2017
Patient care costs (salaries and benefits, supplies, other operating expenses and depreciation and amortization)	$	44,118		$	40,035		$	37,557

Cost-to-charges ratio (patient care costs as percentage of gross patient charges)		12.0	%		12.4	%		12.9	%

Total uncompensated care	$	31,105		$	26,757		$	23,420
Multiply by the cost-to-charges ratio		12.0	%		12.4	%		12.9	%

Estimated cost of total uncompensated care	$	3,733		$	3,318		$	3,021