US Health Care Costs

Diabetes, with major complications in New Hampshire

MS-DRG 637: Diabetes with mcc

$43,374typical hospital bill
$11,362typical amount paid
$10,432–$21,514range paid across 6 hospitals

New Hampshire hospitals billed Medicare a typical $43,374 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
Wentworth-Douglass HospitalDover25$43,615$10,432
Elliot HospitalManchester16$45,713$11,241
Concord HospitalConcord17$40,052$11,280
St Joseph HospitalNashua13$41,046$11,444
Cheshire Medical CenterKeene12$43,133$13,821
Mary Hitchcock Memorial HospitalLebanon20$60,692$21,514

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.