US Health Care Costs

Cardiac Defibrillator Implant Without Mcc in New York

MS-DRG 277: Cardiac defibrillator implant without mcc

$274,619typical hospital bill
$60,883typical amount paid
$47,369–$66,934range paid across 7 hospitals

New York hospitals billed Medicare a typical $274,619 for this stay in 2024, about 4.5 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 Francis Hospital - the Heart CenterRoslyn61$274,619$47,369
Kaleida HealthBuffalo11$102,330$48,492
New York-Presbyterian HospitalNew York20$205,953$55,564
North Shore University HospitalManhasset20$282,951$60,883
Suny/Stony Brook University HospitalStony Brook15$332,403$61,644
Nyu Langone HospitalsNew York21$527,716$63,336
Staten Island University HospitalStaten Island16$243,696$66,934

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.