US Health Care Costs

Other digestive problems, with complications in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 394: Other digestive system diagnoses with cc

$43,096typical hospital bill
$8,299typical amount paid
$6,371–$17,601range paid across 45 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $43,096 for this stay in 2024, about 5.2 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
Jefferson Lansdale HospitalLansdale16$27,469$6,371
Upmc PassavantPittsburgh21$45,909$6,564
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville14$26,577$6,616
Ahn Wexford HospitalWexford15$25,848$6,646
Paoli HospitalPaoli26$55,010$6,704
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia23$49,590$6,718
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown41$24,435$6,775
Regional Hospital of ScrantonScranton13$44,293$6,950
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterMeadowbrook13$23,453$7,084
Upmc WilliamsportWilliamsport14$30,439$7,092
Forbes HospitalMonroeville23$33,003$7,201
Chester County HospitalWest Chester42$43,096$7,284
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr34$47,809$7,327
Upmc AltoonaAltoona14$21,514$7,377
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre15$56,976$7,383
St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusStroudsburg22$62,432$7,390
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg11$46,206$7,503
Penn Highlands DuboisDubois11$19,961$7,581
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne33$30,631$7,635
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster47$31,038$7,873
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton26$71,739$7,952
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington56$30,183$8,139
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg31$37,988$8,299
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood15$70,624$8,374
Saint Vincent HospitalErie13$36,066$8,387
Wellspan York HospitalYork37$35,335$8,388
Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College15$23,628$8,460
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia22$37,930$8,465
Reading HospitalWest Reading39$42,671$8,579
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown97$52,139$8,656
Robert Packer HospitalSayre11$38,637$8,676
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre19$77,548$8,685
Upmc HamotErie20$56,449$8,711
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown16$23,157$9,028
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg22$23,138$9,106
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton20$36,828$9,457
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem30$87,221$9,688
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville33$74,323$10,778
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh67$115,974$10,975
Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh13$48,103$11,310
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston31$64,830$11,636
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia31$57,949$12,272
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia26$87,911$12,431
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey20$51,511$12,716
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia27$155,950$17,601

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.