US Health Care Costs

Other digestive problems, with complications in Georgia

MS-DRG 394: Other digestive system diagnoses with cc

$41,793typical hospital bill
$9,682typical amount paid
$6,566–$23,726range paid across 28 hospitals

Georgia hospitals billed Medicare a typical $41,793 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)

HospitalCityMedicare staysBilledPaid
Wellstar Paulding Medical CenterHiram12$69,403$6,566
Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta, IncAtlanta27$36,718$6,874
Piedmont Augusta HospitalAugusta16$20,956$7,194
Doctors HospitalAugusta11$52,723$7,453
AdventHealth RedmondRome11$71,577$7,480
Piedmont Newnan Hospital, IncNewnan12$31,458$8,035
Savannah Health Services LLC Dba Memorial Health University Medical CenterSavannah16$35,555$8,695
Piedmont Athens Regional Medical CenterAthens21$33,520$8,770
Northside Hospital ForsythCumming18$46,444$8,893
Piedmont Fayette HospitalFayetteville15$36,550$8,917
Atrium Health Floyd Medical CenterRome11$33,193$9,203
Northside Hospital CherokeeCanton19$61,514$9,238
Hamilton Medical CenterDalton11$44,090$9,413
Piedmont Eastside Medical CenterSnellville12$48,610$9,459
Phoebe Putney Memorial HospitalAlbany12$21,868$9,905
Emory Decatur HospitalDecatur13$33,864$10,091
Northeast Georgia Medical Center, IncGainesville39$39,727$10,300
Atrium Health Navicent the Medical CenterMacon12$54,872$10,334
Emory University Hospital MidtownAtlanta11$24,171$10,610
Northside Hospital GwinnettLawrenceville13$43,859$10,950
Piedmont Hospital, IncAtlanta28$32,940$10,991
Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical CenterMarietta53$49,169$11,023
Wellstar Cobb Medical CenterAustell17$52,014$11,307
Northside HospitalAtlanta15$80,060$11,731
Wellstar North Fulton Medical CenterRoswell17$105,864$13,401
Emory University HospitalAtlanta40$38,283$13,854
Wellstar Mcg Health, Affiliated with Med ColAugusta13$34,879$15,293
Grady Memorial HospitalAtlanta19$56,341$23,726

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.