US Health Care Costs

Dehydration and electrolyte problems, with major complications in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 640: Miscellaneous disorders of nutrition, metabolism, fluids and electrolytes with mcc

$51,515typical hospital bill
$11,212typical amount paid
$8,643–$19,499range paid across 81 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $51,515 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
St Clair HospitalPittsburgh11$34,599$8,643
Jefferson Lansdale HospitalLansdale22$32,978$8,724
Jefferson HospitalJefferson Hills15$56,886$8,838
Upmc PassavantPittsburgh12$47,833$8,855
Upmc CarlisleCarlisle17$53,800$8,866
Excela Health Westmoreland Regional HospitalGreensburg18$18,949$8,948
Upmc MemorialYork25$42,600$8,982
Pottstown HospitalPottstown17$72,404$9,026
Geisinger St. Luke's HospitalOrwigsburg16$45,687$9,078
Lehigh Valley Hospital - HazletonHazleton11$41,053$9,128
Heritage Valley SewickleySewickley14$13,373$9,129
Ahn Wexford HospitalWexford19$39,487$9,162
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown38$31,731$9,255
Penn Highlands DuboisDubois22$21,199$9,266
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia44$62,660$9,279
Paoli HospitalPaoli47$68,082$9,308
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre28$71,549$9,447
Upmc EastMonroeville16$56,847$9,461
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville32$47,847$9,471
Regional Hospital of ScrantonScranton15$42,732$9,571
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterMeadowbrook23$44,119$9,681
Upmc WilliamsportWilliamsport27$41,443$9,711
Chester County HospitalWest Chester77$53,058$9,748
Forbes HospitalMonroeville25$58,021$9,824
Uniontown HospitalUniontown17$27,656$9,826
Upmc AltoonaAltoona25$40,283$9,926
St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusStroudsburg33$83,439$9,968
Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg19$35,455$10,088
Schuylkill Medical Center - South Jackson StreetPottsville15$50,563$10,094
Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville25$48,399$10,152
Heritage Valley BeaverBeaver19$23,632$10,188
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr51$63,056$10,277
Meadville Medical CenterMeadville16$26,878$10,603
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg42$29,844$10,626
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg21$78,976$10,662
Upmc HanoverHanover20$49,147$10,748
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne41$33,772$10,752
Geisinger-Lewistown HospitalLewistown17$47,249$10,793
Upmc St MargaretPittsburgh15$44,762$10,923
St Luke's Hospital - Upper Bucks CampusQuakertown12$77,155$11,023
Lower Bucks HospitalBristol11$28,325$11,212
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre51$83,735$11,250
St Luke's Hospital - Carbon CampusLehighton20$116,714$11,256
Reading HospitalWest Reading99$48,520$11,286
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington86$56,324$11,287
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg69$49,708$11,335
St Luke's Miners Memorial HospitalCoaldale11$62,412$11,441
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown98$79,461$11,516
Roxborough Memorial HospitalPhiladelphia15$39,412$11,563
West Penn HospitalPittsburgh11$61,749$11,604
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster56$39,110$11,612
Saint Vincent HospitalErie27$66,495$11,617
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia61$39,597$11,711
Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College22$41,457$11,993
Wellspan Ephrata Community HospitalEphrata15$62,867$12,132
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood58$85,812$12,175
Nazareth HospitalPhiladelphia22$47,116$12,451
Robert Packer HospitalSayre41$48,478$12,469
Upmc HamotErie31$107,322$12,552
Independence Health System Clarion HospitalClarion12$14,045$12,564
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem60$84,315$12,715
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton57$71,992$12,849
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown19$37,853$12,915
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton52$39,721$13,136
Temple Health - Chestnut Hill HospitalPhiladelphia58$143,855$13,302
Crozer Chester Medical CenterUpland28$117,145$13,350
Wellspan York HospitalYork48$47,686$13,401
Pennsylvania HospitalPhiladelphia35$100,183$13,649
Upmc MercyPittsburgh13$69,068$13,741
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia29$99,887$13,944
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville39$99,100$14,103
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey38$69,888$14,280
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston66$80,731$14,513
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh56$137,575$14,553
Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh14$79,024$15,075
Penn State Health Hampden Medical CenterEnola17$51,515$15,160
Mercy Catholic Medical Center- Mercy FitzgeraldDarby28$60,880$15,489
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia68$76,188$17,213
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia48$177,721$18,403
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia HospitalPhiladelphia42$58,166$19,113
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia72$165,500$19,499

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.