US Health Care Costs

Complications of Treatment with Mcc in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 919: Complications of treatment with mcc

$79,962typical hospital bill
$16,994typical amount paid
$12,640–$30,216range paid across 20 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $79,962 for this stay in 2024, about 4.7 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
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown15$54,821$12,640
Chester County HospitalWest Chester11$66,653$13,344
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster18$45,874$14,096
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia14$57,646$15,149
Reading HospitalWest Reading17$73,334$15,579
Wellspan York HospitalYork16$66,083$15,691
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton15$114,966$15,908
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg25$65,999$16,052
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown51$106,642$16,463
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington23$77,172$16,776
Robert Packer HospitalSayre15$51,542$17,213
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh53$163,292$18,384
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem14$153,293$18,552
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia11$85,727$19,233
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston16$82,752$19,769
Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh15$88,016$19,861
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia21$71,510$24,255
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey23$138,834$26,187
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia39$197,153$27,563
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville15$283,304$30,216

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.