US Health Care Costs

Dehydration and electrolyte problems in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 641: Miscellaneous disorders of nutrition, metabolism, fluids and electrolytes without mcc

$33,816typical hospital bill
$6,585typical amount paid
$5,143–$13,472range paid across 94 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $33,816 for this stay in 2024, about 5.1 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 Clair HospitalPittsburgh12$16,399$5,143
Ahn Wexford HospitalWexford11$25,225$5,206
Wellspan Evangelical Community HospitalLewisburg12$35,399$5,284
Lehigh Valley Hospital - HazletonHazleton12$31,467$5,441
Geisinger St. Luke's HospitalOrwigsburg14$36,306$5,488
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown49$24,321$5,501
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia45$52,594$5,510
Jefferson Lansdale HospitalLansdale36$19,580$5,560
Upmc CarlisleCarlisle13$28,469$5,566
Upmc PassavantPittsburgh23$35,404$5,575
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville36$23,186$5,602
Heritage Valley SewickleySewickley18$10,042$5,641
Upmc MemorialYork20$26,308$5,645
Excela Health Westmoreland Regional HospitalGreensburg17$13,489$5,666
Upmc NorthwestSeneca16$22,118$5,670
Pottstown HospitalPottstown32$43,865$5,722
Chester County HospitalWest Chester86$37,407$5,782
Upmc EastMonroeville11$58,484$5,807
Paoli HospitalPaoli68$47,605$5,827
Uniontown HospitalUniontown13$12,429$5,836
Penn Highlands DuboisDubois20$10,793$5,878
Jefferson HospitalJefferson Hills21$30,470$5,914
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre39$40,615$5,934
Independence Health System Butler Memorial HospitaButler12$22,607$5,963
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterMeadowbrook55$21,675$5,975
Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg19$33,738$5,991
Upmc WilliamsportWilliamsport26$30,487$5,997
Upmc JamesonNew Castle11$16,666$6,014
St Luke's Hospital - Carbon CampusLehighton13$60,798$6,052
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg23$41,595$6,107
St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusStroudsburg30$54,284$6,107
Forbes HospitalMonroeville20$32,281$6,179
The Washington HospitalWashington25$10,371$6,235
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr59$45,100$6,266
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill20$35,444$6,300
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton57$58,575$6,305
Regional Hospital of ScrantonScranton16$36,346$6,326
Meadville Medical CenterMeadville22$16,824$6,340
Lehigh Valley Hospital - Dickson CityDickson City11$37,902$6,341
Upmc HanoverHanover13$27,081$6,366
Upmc AltoonaAltoona17$25,784$6,374
Schuylkill Medical Center - South Jackson StreetPottsville12$36,443$6,445
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster48$25,608$6,480
Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville26$36,484$6,486
Excela Health Latrobe HospitalLatrobe12$9,978$6,492
Heritage Valley BeaverBeaver12$13,096$6,555
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne79$26,397$6,576
St Luke's Hospital - Easton CampusEaston17$65,722$6,594
Geisinger-Lewistown HospitalLewistown16$37,343$6,601
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg37$23,996$6,664
Wayne Memorial HospitalHonesdale15$32,850$6,673
St Luke's Hospital - Upper Bucks CampusQuakertown27$62,621$6,684
Wellspan Waynesboro HospitalWaynesboro12$21,431$6,780
Penn State Health St. JosephReading36$28,268$6,791
St Luke's Miners Memorial HospitalCoaldale12$33,895$6,808
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington97$25,544$6,840
Reading HospitalWest Reading57$35,889$6,916
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia56$29,055$6,933
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre56$60,419$6,949
Wellspan Good Samaritan HospitalLebanon16$22,000$6,987
Upmc St MargaretPittsburgh26$42,940$7,000
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg61$30,192$7,089
Warren General HospitalWarren13$12,681$7,180
Lecom Medical Center and Behavioral Health PavErie14$16,976$7,218
Penn State Health Lancaster Medical CenterLancaster14$34,278$7,226
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood57$57,889$7,242
Saint Vincent HospitalErie24$33,949$7,286
Geisinger-Bloomsburg HospitalBloomsburg12$38,042$7,323
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown132$46,995$7,400
Upmc HamotErie19$56,491$7,425
Robert Packer HospitalSayre34$26,484$7,431
Roxborough Memorial HospitalPhiladelphia16$31,361$7,432
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton30$28,883$7,545
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown11$22,786$7,723
Temple Health - Chestnut Hill HospitalPhiladelphia29$74,482$7,772
Lower Bucks HospitalBristol13$26,003$7,777
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem62$60,296$8,089
Nazareth HospitalPhiladelphia13$32,925$8,201
Wellspan York HospitalYork42$28,771$8,517
Pennsylvania HospitalPhiladelphia32$79,992$8,562
Upmc MercyPittsburgh12$42,317$8,716
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston57$54,674$8,856
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia17$64,240$8,910
Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College17$26,953$8,926
Penn State Health Hampden Medical CenterEnola12$32,716$8,954
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh47$91,198$9,112
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey50$36,162$9,250
Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh23$49,205$9,267
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville39$60,061$9,308
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia42$39,871$9,654
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia HospitalPhiladelphia16$38,069$10,176
Mercy Catholic Medical Center- Mercy FitzgeraldDarby24$37,667$10,345
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia39$99,792$11,093
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia50$119,246$13,472

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.