Diabetes, with major complications in South Carolina

MS-DRG 637: Diabetes with mcc

$51,307typical hospital bill

$11,910typical amount paid

$8,591–$18,177range paid across 18 hospitals

South Carolina hospitals billed Medicare a typical $51,307 for this stay in 2024, about 4.3 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)

Hospital	City	Medicare stays	Billed	Paid
Roper Hospital	Charleston	16	$38,836	$8,591
Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital	Sumter	13	$36,957	$9,453
McLeod Regional Medical Center-Pee Dee	Florence	22	$65,949	$9,510
McLeod Loris Hospital	Loris	14	$32,386	$9,607
Musc Health Florence Medical Center	Florence	13	$71,475	$9,736
St Francis-Downtown	Greenville	21	$52,786	$9,749
Piedmont Medical Center	Rock Hill	12	$113,614	$10,223
Lexington Medical Center	West Columbia	44	$54,606	$10,629
Grand Strand Regional Medical Center	Myrtle Beach	21	$95,223	$11,609
McLeod Health Cheraw	Cheraw	11	$50,583	$12,211
Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital	Seneca	11	$25,066	$12,217
Trident Medical Center	Charleston	32	$157,559	$12,694
Prisma Health Greer Memorial Hospital	Spartanburg	11	$31,140	$12,882
Spartanburg Medical Center	Spartanburg	23	$49,925	$13,157
Anmed Health	Anderson	14	$66,622	$13,607
Prisma Health Richland Hospital	Columbia	23	$44,417	$14,127
Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital	Greenville	16	$45,966	$14,161
Musc Medical Center	Charleston	38	$52,031	$18,177

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.