US Health Care Costs

Diabetes, with complications in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 638: Diabetes with cc

$33,889typical hospital bill
$7,768typical amount paid
$5,964–$13,803range paid across 61 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $33,889 for this stay in 2024, about 4.4 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$20,739$5,964
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville11$32,564$6,184
Paoli HospitalPaoli17$60,136$6,416
Pottstown HospitalPottstown16$58,891$6,570
Excela Health Westmoreland Regional HospitalGreensburg14$14,762$6,581
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown22$24,044$6,639
St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusStroudsburg14$47,804$6,685
Upmc WilliamsportWilliamsport11$30,653$6,738
Chester County HospitalWest Chester30$35,605$6,765
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre17$53,702$6,788
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton21$54,268$6,855
Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg15$25,205$6,901
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia21$47,310$6,929
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg14$33,105$6,966
Regional Hospital of ScrantonScranton20$48,558$6,987
Forbes HospitalMonroeville24$32,196$7,015
Penn State Health Lancaster Medical CenterLancaster18$28,380$7,066
Independence Health System Butler Memorial HospitaButler14$26,559$7,114
Upmc AltoonaAltoona14$30,711$7,126
Uniontown HospitalUniontown12$15,641$7,200
Upmc MemorialYork20$30,516$7,313
Jefferson Lansdale HospitalLansdale18$25,391$7,377
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia23$26,007$7,383
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg25$23,088$7,456
Heritage Valley BeaverBeaver11$13,062$7,525
Upmc HanoverHanover11$29,168$7,565
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill27$42,452$7,593
Geisinger-Lewistown HospitalLewistown12$27,992$7,622
Wayne Memorial HospitalHonesdale11$29,484$7,676
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne22$21,974$7,729
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg36$32,264$7,768
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster26$27,470$7,814
Penn State Health St. JosephReading11$37,247$7,858
Wellspan Waynesboro HospitalWaynesboro11$24,128$7,868
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington45$31,049$7,878
Penn State Health Hampden Medical CenterEnola12$29,124$7,892
Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College11$19,986$8,091
Upmc St MargaretPittsburgh11$58,109$8,096
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown104$49,437$8,308
Robert Packer HospitalSayre16$36,407$8,309
Reading HospitalWest Reading44$33,889$8,341
Upmc HamotErie15$53,973$8,387
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre30$58,917$8,468
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown12$25,429$8,720
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr15$54,089$8,748
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood21$60,314$8,766
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton12$28,958$8,941
Temple Health - Chestnut Hill HospitalPhiladelphia16$95,761$9,037
Pennsylvania HospitalPhiladelphia19$61,129$9,170
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh16$77,649$9,541
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem28$63,221$10,213
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston21$61,315$10,404
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia18$65,317$10,490
Wellspan York HospitalYork22$32,943$10,697
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville22$68,963$10,793
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia22$55,744$11,321
Mercy Catholic Medical Center- Mercy FitzgeraldDarby12$42,810$12,163
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia41$97,158$12,339
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey26$43,151$13,135
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia HospitalPhiladelphia14$39,781$13,419
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia14$123,084$13,803

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.