US Health Care Costs

Digestive Malignancy with Mcc in New Jersey

MS-DRG 374: Digestive malignancy with mcc

$132,581typical hospital bill
$20,376typical amount paid
$16,400–$38,916range paid across 15 hospitals

New Jersey hospitals billed Medicare a typical $132,581 for this stay in 2024, about 6.5 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
Riverview Medical CenterRed Bank17$108,599$16,400
Chilton Medical CenterPompton Plains14$118,010$16,780
Valley HospitalParamus23$94,496$17,273
University Medical Center of Princeton at PlainsboroPlainsboro16$132,581$17,971
West Jersey HospitalVoorhees19$170,974$18,111
Jersey Shore University Medical CenterNeptune16$165,162$18,811
Ocean Medical CenterBrick20$90,597$19,082
Overlook Medical CenterSummit24$112,586$20,376
Englewood Hospital and Medical CenterEnglewood15$120,842$22,434
Cooper University HospitalCamden12$102,892$22,560
Morristown Medical CenterMorristown25$161,781$23,532
Robert Wood Johnson University HospitalNew Brunswick15$206,658$24,541
Hackensack University Medical CenterHackensack43$146,072$26,879
Cooperman Barnabas Medical CenterLivingston22$203,020$30,028
St Joseph's University Medical Center IncPaterson13$322,966$38,916

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.