US Health Care Costs

Digestive Malignancy with Mcc in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 374: Digestive malignancy with mcc

$94,812typical hospital bill
$19,973typical amount paid
$13,858–$50,943range paid across 14 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $94,812 for this stay in 2024, about 4.7 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
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown13$40,500$13,858
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia14$86,849$13,981
Chester County HospitalWest Chester15$70,190$15,441
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr18$100,992$15,748
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster18$76,692$17,462
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington16$74,830$18,468
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton13$86,306$18,836
Robert Packer HospitalSayre14$88,633$21,110
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown23$164,626$21,350
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh20$191,807$21,670
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey14$103,372$22,494
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville14$147,452$23,017
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia12$134,483$30,449
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia24$298,651$50,943

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.