US Health Care Costs

Chest pain in New Hampshire

MS-DRG 313: Chest pain

$34,369typical hospital bill
$6,240typical amount paid
$5,690–$13,025range paid across 3 hospitals

New Hampshire hospitals billed Medicare a typical $34,369 for this stay in 2024, about 5.5 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
Wentworth-Douglass HospitalDover11$34,369$5,690
Elliot HospitalManchester12$30,317$6,240
Portsmouth Regional HospitalPortsmouth12$60,418$13,025

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.