What does hospital care really cost?
Hospitals bill one price, Medicare pays another, and insurers negotiate a third. Compare them for hospital stays, scans, lab tests and surgery, using public data from 2024.
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5,452hospitals
5.0MMedicare stays, 2024
139hospitals with cash and insurer prices
Popular:Sepsis, with major complicationsHeart failure, with major complicationsLung infection, with major complicationsKnee replacementMRI of the brain, with and without contrastColonoscopy
Procedure costs by state
Common hospital stays
- Sepsis, with major complications
- Heart failure, with major complications
- Lung infection, with major complications
- Pneumonia, with major complications
- Sepsis
- Urinary tract infection
- Respiratory failure
- Stomach and digestive disorders
- Heart attack, with major complications
- Urinary tract infection, with major complications
- Infection needing surgery, with major complications
- Kidney failure, with complications
Outpatient procedures and tests
Cash and insurer prices from the hospitals' own price files. More hospitals are added every night.
Scans and imaging
Lab tests
- Complete blood count (CBC) 33 states
- Comprehensive metabolic panel (blood test) 33 states
Surgery
- Cataract surgery 29 states
- Colonoscopy 30 states
- Colonoscopy with biopsy 30 states
- Gallbladder removal (laparoscopic) 29 states
- Hip replacement 28 states
- Knee arthroscopy (meniscus) 29 states
- Knee replacement 28 states
Childbirth
Emergency and doctor visits
- Emergency room visit, highest level 33 states