US Health Care Costs

Other digestive problems, with complications in New Hampshire

MS-DRG 394: Other digestive system diagnoses with cc

$31,334typical hospital bill
$8,495typical amount paid
$7,256–$11,653range paid across 6 hospitals

New Hampshire hospitals billed Medicare a typical $31,334 for this stay in 2024, about 3.7 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
Wentworth-Douglass HospitalDover27$25,738$7,256
St Joseph HospitalNashua12$29,390$7,271
Elliot HospitalManchester21$27,310$8,485
Concord HospitalConcord28$33,278$8,505
Portsmouth Regional HospitalPortsmouth21$54,371$8,614
Mary Hitchcock Memorial HospitalLebanon35$35,100$11,653

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.