US Health Care Costs

COPD, with major complications in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 190: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with mcc

$43,446typical hospital bill
$9,517typical amount paid
$6,567–$17,526range paid across 73 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $43,446 for this stay in 2024, about 4.6 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
Upmc PassavantPittsburgh12$70,181$6,567
Upmc AltoonaAltoona11$36,708$7,252
Jefferson HospitalJefferson Hills11$52,973$7,293
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill12$43,004$7,402
Upmc CarlisleCarlisle12$41,999$7,450
Wellspan Evangelical Community HospitalLewisburg23$46,036$7,538
Lehigh Valley Hospital - HazletonHazleton21$44,563$7,707
Heritage Valley SewickleySewickley12$14,538$7,727
Upmc NorthwestSeneca13$29,955$7,790
Excela Health Westmoreland Regional HospitalGreensburg26$31,349$7,816
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre34$53,701$7,852
Uniontown HospitalUniontown18$29,110$7,938
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville29$38,493$7,958
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown60$37,544$7,969
Sharon Regional Medical CenterSharon12$30,968$7,990
Paoli HospitalPaoli53$60,525$8,009
Upmc HorizonGreenville13$38,918$8,070
The Washington HospitalWashington17$13,064$8,086
Forbes HospitalMonroeville13$42,613$8,177
Chester County HospitalWest Chester108$50,576$8,217
Regional Hospital of ScrantonScranton38$60,480$8,226
Jefferson Lansdale HospitalLansdale26$38,046$8,277
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterMeadowbrook19$32,413$8,297
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg20$54,142$8,408
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia30$69,307$8,458
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton35$79,766$8,490
Meadville Medical CenterMeadville29$32,111$8,522
Excela Health Latrobe HospitalLatrobe16$28,293$8,575
St Luke's Hospital - Carbon CampusLehighton12$64,174$8,606
Penn Highlands HuntingdonHuntingdon11$22,195$8,773
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg19$24,725$8,904
Heritage Valley BeaverBeaver21$19,579$9,057
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster47$37,480$9,059
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne57$37,163$9,084
Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg23$31,994$9,223
Upmc WilliamsportWilliamsport19$43,446$9,356
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr39$59,906$9,517
Penn State Health St. JosephReading43$40,581$9,546
Wellspan Waynesboro HospitalWaynesboro12$22,950$9,563
Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville29$57,993$9,585
Warren General HospitalWarren13$17,203$9,629
Wellspan Good Samaritan HospitalLebanon13$28,755$9,665
Wellspan York HospitalYork37$35,833$9,687
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington93$41,247$9,757
Robert Packer HospitalSayre33$36,257$9,966
Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College18$38,068$10,059
Reading HospitalWest Reading82$47,680$10,090
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre32$83,294$10,094
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg29$51,056$10,117
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia57$37,950$10,118
Geisinger-Lewistown HospitalLewistown13$44,708$10,128
Saint Vincent HospitalErie11$45,620$10,266
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown83$65,335$10,311
Upmc MemorialYork12$63,933$10,336
Temple Health - Chestnut Hill HospitalPhiladelphia25$113,969$10,483
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown13$31,780$10,637
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton30$36,889$10,676
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood36$75,088$10,885
Nazareth HospitalPhiladelphia32$34,045$10,961
Pennsylvania HospitalPhiladelphia34$112,519$11,147
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem30$76,821$11,166
Upmc HanoverHanover29$48,019$11,489
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville21$80,690$11,861
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey14$45,609$12,585
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia23$134,924$12,602
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston22$76,907$12,668
Mercy Catholic Medical Center- Mercy FitzgeraldDarby48$44,874$13,740
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia30$119,595$13,796
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh21$132,912$13,880
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia HospitalPhiladelphia12$30,842$13,985
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia33$60,573$15,092
Penn State Health Hampden Medical CenterEnola11$44,216$16,580
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia39$148,868$17,526

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.