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
210hospitals 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.
Doctor and ER visits
Scans and imaging
Lab tests
Heart, lung and nerve tests
Scopes and biopsies
Surgery
Childbirth and women's health
Therapy and mental health
Infusions, shots and treatments
The number after each is how many hospitals publish a price for it so far.