Estimate your trauma program’s unbilled charges
Start with your trauma center level and annual case volume to estimate unbilled charges and potential payments. We’ve included starting charges for activation, ICU, and critical care—adjust them to match your hospital.
For trauma patients admitted to your ICU.
Adjust care chargesICU and critical care included.
Use your hospital’s gross facility charges. Leave the starting values if you’re unsure.
Starting values use U.S. hospital samples. View sources and dates.
NQS Activate360™ estimate
We estimate $4,691,760 per year in unbilled charges for your trauma program
and $938,352 per year in potential payments.
Adjust the numbers to match your program. Estimates include activation fees plus ICU and critical care charges.
Estimated unbilled charges / yr
$4,691,760
Potential payments / yr
$938,352
Accurately reflect the trauma care your team delivered
Activate360™ validates claims against verified trauma registry data to help stop leaving defensible revenue behind.
Illustrative annual estimate based on NQS assumptions. The starting activation charge is the median tier 1 (full activation) charge from a published study of US trauma center chargemasters JAMA Network Open, 2023. Activate360 supports identifying, validating, correcting, and recovering through compliant review. It does not guarantee revenue recovery.
How trauma programs assess unbilled charges
ICU and critical care benchmark sources
ICU: $4,508 per day, the median of hospital-level daily charges in a study of 838 U.S. hospitals (2020 data; published 2023). ICU benchmark study.
Critical care: $5,358 for the initial facility service (99291), the median of a filtered gross-charge sample from 142 hospitals in 27 states, collected November 10, 2026. This is a multistate sample, not a nationally representative estimate. Critical care source data (CSV).
The critical care sample uses ChargemasterDB hospital records, filtered for explicit gross prices and hospital or emergency department critical care descriptions. Cash prices, physician fees, ambiguous entries, and procedure variants were excluded. The sample is not weighted by geography or hospital volume. Neither benchmark is specific to trauma patients or adjusted for inflation. Use your hospital’s gross facility charges when available.
Annual estimates apply illustrative NQS assumptions to these unit charges; the source benchmarks do not establish how often charges are unbilled.