US Health Care Costs

Bowel surgery, with complications in Maryland

MS-DRG 330: Major small and large bowel procedures with cc

$36,857typical hospital bill
$33,255typical amount paid
$22,878–$50,010range paid across 29 hospitals

Maryland hospitals billed Medicare a typical $36,857 for this stay in 2024, about 1.1 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
Holy Cross Germantown HospitalGermantown20$25,776$22,878
Adventist Healthcare Shady Grove Medical CenterRockville30$27,379$24,246
University of Md St Joseph Medical CenterTowson28$29,318$26,164
Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center, IncAnnapolis82$28,343$26,253
Suburban HospitalBethesda53$31,276$28,252
Atlantic General HospitalBerlin12$31,220$28,634
Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring28$31,982$28,873
Greater Baltimore Medical CenterBaltimore33$32,627$29,089
Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical CenterColumbia31$31,050$29,173
University of Md Shore Medical Center at EastonEaston29$33,337$29,879
Umd Upper Chesapeake Medical CenterBel Air29$33,104$30,125
Saint Agnes HospitalBaltimore29$34,771$30,339
University of Md Baltimore Washington Medical CenterGlen Burnie47$33,593$31,258
Carroll Hospital CenterWestminster21$36,034$32,198
Tidalhealth Peninsula Regional, IncSalisbury34$37,129$33,255
Medstar Franklin Square Medical CenterRosedale58$37,805$34,453
Northwest Hospital CenterRandallstown24$39,532$34,893
Meritus Medical CenterHagerstown33$38,349$35,419
Mercy Medical Center IncBaltimore39$42,765$37,003
Frederick Health HospitalFrederick26$40,798$37,524
Medstar Southern Maryland Hospital CenterClinton29$39,582$38,105
Luminis Health Doctors Community Medical Ctr, IncLanham11$42,653$39,439
University of Md Capital Region Medical CenterUpper Marlboro13$40,693$40,101
University of Md Charles Regional Medical CenterLa Plata11$36,857$40,344
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical CenterBaltimore26$46,181$40,644
Western Maryland Regional Medical CenterCumberland19$47,163$41,646
The Johns Hopkins HospitalBaltimore80$48,726$42,631
Sinai Hospital of BaltimoreBaltimore38$52,046$45,944
University of Maryland Medical CenterBaltimore39$54,345$50,010

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.