US Health Care Costs

Anemia and blood disorders, with major complications in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 811: Red blood cell disorders with mcc

$61,185typical hospital bill
$12,876typical amount paid
$9,524–$29,831range paid across 47 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $61,185 for this stay in 2024, about 4.8 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
Jefferson HospitalJefferson Hills20$61,185$9,524
Upmc WilliamsportWilliamsport12$54,296$9,627
St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusStroudsburg15$95,073$9,930
Paoli HospitalPaoli17$65,516$10,013
Excela Health Westmoreland Regional HospitalGreensburg14$26,791$10,054
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown23$36,656$10,065
Regional Hospital of ScrantonScranton19$63,775$10,280
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre11$77,317$10,366
Wellspan Good Samaritan HospitalLebanon11$32,322$10,377
Chester County HospitalWest Chester14$36,425$10,396
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia24$71,322$10,464
Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg12$42,654$10,646
Forbes HospitalMonroeville15$54,698$10,748
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville12$52,272$10,769
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr30$71,437$11,038
Uniontown HospitalUniontown11$26,819$11,280
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne16$44,498$11,413
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre21$132,164$12,001
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg33$54,658$12,180
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg23$42,884$12,219
Reading HospitalWest Reading26$53,782$12,394
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown49$80,568$12,428
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia21$47,280$12,508
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington41$57,899$12,876
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton17$45,075$12,880
Wellspan York HospitalYork36$44,184$12,923
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton22$139,388$13,157
Nazareth HospitalPhiladelphia13$48,712$13,180
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood27$73,542$13,232
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown14$39,263$13,367
Temple Health - Chestnut Hill HospitalPhiladelphia20$126,133$13,405
Crozer Chester Medical CenterUpland13$97,798$13,692
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem35$109,321$13,867
Robert Packer HospitalSayre13$57,107$14,077
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster20$39,123$14,114
Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh11$94,702$14,592
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh15$134,345$14,594
Pennsylvania HospitalPhiladelphia25$110,479$15,199
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville18$114,108$15,798
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston15$105,615$16,008
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia11$124,221$16,336
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia25$110,312$17,391
Mercy Catholic Medical Center- Mercy FitzgeraldDarby12$51,229$17,545
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia HospitalPhiladelphia11$56,956$18,275
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia25$109,238$21,148
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey16$109,911$21,283
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia23$252,252$29,831

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.