US Health Care Costs

Anemia and blood disorders in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 812: Red blood cell disorders without mcc

$51,890typical hospital bill
$8,255typical amount paid
$6,384–$13,326range paid across 50 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $51,890 for this stay in 2024, about 6.3 times what was actually paid. Medicare's payment depends mostly on the hospital's location and teaching role; the bill depends on the hospital's own price list, so bills vary far more than payments.

Billed (list price)Actually paid (Medicare + patient)

HospitalCityMedicare staysBilledPaid
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville11$31,404$6,384
Excela Health Westmoreland Regional HospitalGreensburg11$21,474$6,530
Upmc MemorialYork14$53,726$6,619
Pottstown HospitalPottstown15$66,690$6,662
Regional Hospital of ScrantonScranton25$50,625$6,715
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre12$53,772$6,768
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown24$33,974$6,769
Chester County HospitalWest Chester38$43,172$6,785
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia26$63,467$6,930
Forbes HospitalMonroeville26$31,337$6,936
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton23$71,544$7,034
Paoli HospitalPaoli27$57,144$7,119
St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusStroudsburg28$75,515$7,153
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill15$46,165$7,231
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg17$49,668$7,306
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterMeadowbrook22$29,673$7,343
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg25$31,302$7,393
Upmc PassavantPittsburgh19$57,738$7,428
Penn State Health St. JosephReading11$54,313$7,816
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington41$30,928$7,929
Reading HospitalWest Reading42$44,310$8,037
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre35$79,872$8,061
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg37$40,887$8,146
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr45$53,155$8,222
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia26$37,583$8,246
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood29$60,844$8,264
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne44$32,954$8,291
Saint Vincent HospitalErie21$67,715$8,292
Upmc HamotErie19$39,888$8,304
Wellspan York HospitalYork47$35,621$8,461
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown57$55,322$8,474
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown11$27,574$8,510
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster21$29,241$8,516
Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville16$43,489$8,542
Robert Packer HospitalSayre15$35,454$8,599
Upmc HanoverHanover12$36,285$8,741
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton12$32,952$8,775
Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg18$35,759$8,788
Temple Health - Chestnut Hill HospitalPhiladelphia22$88,166$8,935
Crozer Chester Medical CenterUpland15$63,133$9,172
Pennsylvania HospitalPhiladelphia112$63,601$9,510
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem26$57,426$9,557
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh27$73,427$9,824
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia13$50,276$9,864
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville17$83,655$10,122
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston31$69,244$10,865
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey25$69,972$11,843
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia18$122,365$12,302
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia39$90,406$12,735
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia23$54,866$13,326

Medicare: CMS, 2024 (hospitals with 11 or more Medicare stays). Cash and insurer prices: hospitals' own price files, where read; insurer figures are commercial plans only, median and 10th–90th percentile across plans.