US Health Care Costs

Disorders of Liver Except Malignancy, Cirrhosis or Alcoholic Hepatitis with Mcc in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 441: Disorders of liver except malignancy, cirrhosis or alcoholic hepatitis with mcc

$98,326typical hospital bill
$18,601typical amount paid
$13,608–$39,395range paid across 21 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $98,326 for this stay in 2024, about 5.3 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
Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg16$42,388$13,608
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg11$56,343$14,184
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg11$48,260$14,221
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre14$106,556$14,879
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia21$50,063$15,729
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster12$69,479$15,993
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown25$104,626$16,717
Upmc HamotErie16$145,892$16,854
Wellspan York HospitalYork14$42,293$17,536
Reading HospitalWest Reading20$69,189$18,360
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem15$184,232$18,601
Robert Packer HospitalSayre18$55,660$19,079
Nazareth HospitalPhiladelphia11$86,178$19,963
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh39$170,740$20,112
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey14$84,992$21,489
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville21$149,602$22,066
Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh14$111,232$24,089
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia HospitalPhiladelphia12$98,326$25,267
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia14$287,876$29,103
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia37$256,313$33,238
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia20$165,266$39,395

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.