US Health Care Costs

Dehydration and electrolyte problems in Virginia

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

$24,870typical hospital bill
$6,503typical amount paid
$5,006–$14,257range paid across 55 hospitals

Virginia hospitals billed Medicare a typical $24,870 for this stay in 2024, about 3.8 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
Riverside Doctors' Hospital of WilliamsburgWilliamsburg27$21,918$5,006
Sentara Martha Jefferson HospitalCharlottesville25$14,713$5,218
Uva Health Haymarket Medical CenterHaymarket25$20,086$5,410
Riverside Walter Reed HospitalGloucester11$18,840$5,613
Chesapeake General HospitalChesapeake37$15,570$5,776
Bon Secours Southside Medical CenterPetersburg38$48,698$5,873
Fauquier HospitalWarrenton11$30,298$5,900
John Randolph Medical CenterHopewell17$45,977$5,902
Reston Hospital CenterReston26$48,236$6,029
Sentara Princess Anne HospitalVirginia Beach30$26,392$6,052
Augusta HealthFishersville25$24,657$6,077
Sentara Leigh HospitalNorfolk47$27,109$6,125
Henrico Doctors' HospitalRichmond43$54,951$6,156
Centra Health - Lynchburg Gen HospitalLynchburg52$34,064$6,213
Community Memorial HospitalSouth Hill15$27,985$6,216
Spotsylvania Regional Medical CenterFredericksburg12$26,360$6,306
Mary Immaculate HospitalNewport News12$18,816$6,363
Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical CenterWilliamsburg19$27,277$6,367
Sentara Halifax Regional HospitalSouth Boston15$23,158$6,368
Mary Washington HospitalFredericksburg79$14,531$6,378
Cjw Medical CenterRichmond64$73,144$6,390
Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical CenterMechanicsville52$26,363$6,405
Carilion New River Valley Medical CenterChristiansburg23$24,445$6,406
Inova Fair Oaks HospitalFairfax18$19,879$6,437
Virginia Hospital CenterArlington35$21,140$6,475
Stafford Hospital, LLCStafford16$18,510$6,478
Inova Loudoun HospitalLeesburg41$24,689$6,499
Bon Secours St Marys HospitalRichmond67$26,751$6,503
Lewisgale Hospital AlleghanyLow Moor12$30,257$6,569
Sentara Virginia Beach General HospitalVirginia Beach44$29,398$6,658
Inova Alexandria HospitalAlexandria35$22,502$6,756
Winchester Medical CenterWinchester60$16,042$6,762
Sovah Health DanvilleDanville38$36,722$6,845
Bon Secours St Francis Medical CenterMidlothian44$27,217$6,860
Johnston Memorial HospitalAbingdon29$20,802$6,917
Riverside Regional Medical CenterNewport News45$23,218$6,939
Sentara Obici HospitalSuffolk43$26,868$6,981
Carilion Franklin Memorial HospitalRocky Mount13$22,215$6,989
Sentara Rmh Medical CenterHarrisonburg22$18,731$7,047
Sentara Northern Virginia Medical CenterWoodbridge16$30,377$7,047
Bon Secours Maryview Medical CenterPortsmouth21$18,745$7,096
Uva Health Prince William Medical CenterManassas11$27,648$7,131
Carilion Medical CenterRoanoke60$30,222$7,171
Vcu Health Tappahannock HospitalTappahannock12$17,750$7,269
Uva Health Culpeper Medical CenterCulpeper13$20,716$7,379
Warren Memorial HospitalFront Royal15$15,025$7,448
Sentara Careplex HospitalHampton11$27,868$7,581
Inova Mount Vernon HospitalAlexandria13$24,266$7,593
Lewisgale Medical CenterSalem33$42,433$7,733
Lewisgale Hospital MontgomeryBlacksburg13$24,870$7,756
Sentara Norfolk General HospitalNorfolk31$37,154$8,574
Inova Fairfax HospitalFalls Church68$24,575$9,069
Lonesome Pine HospitalBig Stone Gap17$17,170$9,227
Medical College of Virginia HospitalsRichmond43$53,753$13,960
University of Virginia Medical CenterCharlottesville46$49,276$14,257

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.