US Health Care Costs

Cervical Spinal Fusion with Cc in New York

MS-DRG 472: Cervical spinal fusion with cc

$140,979typical hospital bill
$33,931typical amount paid
$25,676–$44,881range paid across 24 hospitals

New York hospitals billed Medicare a typical $140,979 for this stay in 2024, about 4.2 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
White Plains Hospital CenterWhite Plains16$157,773$25,676
Mercy Hospital of BuffaloBuffalo11$49,199$26,091
Crouse HospitalSyracuse23$38,523$26,424
Ns/Lij Hs Southside HospitalBay Shore21$135,659$26,628
United Health Services Hospitals, IncBinghamton17$64,623$28,704
St Francis Hospital - the Heart CenterRoslyn37$176,911$29,697
Unity HospitalRochester12$45,040$30,070
Kaleida HealthBuffalo17$91,351$30,171
Albany Medical Center HospitalAlbany25$62,881$30,259
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical CenterWest Islip11$137,140$31,846
University Hospital S U N Y Health Science CenterSyracuse24$154,707$32,385
Rochester General HospitalRochester11$54,463$33,743
Long Island Jewish Medical CenterNew Hyde Park13$167,896$34,118
Lenox Hill HospitalNew York18$136,430$34,362
Westchester Medical CenterValhalla14$339,709$34,433
John T Mather Memorial Hospital of Port JeffersonPort Jefferson20$150,929$35,145
Vassar Brothers Medical CenterPoughkeepsie13$73,470$35,733
Hospital for Special SurgeryNew York80$150,533$36,408
North Shore University HospitalManhasset25$153,478$37,773
Mount Sinai WestNew York12$120,323$39,543
Suny/Stony Brook University HospitalStony Brook18$155,967$39,620
New York-Presbyterian HospitalNew York67$165,359$40,476
Nyu Langone HospitalsNew York67$316,826$40,697
Mount Sinai HospitalNew York37$144,819$44,881

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.