US Health Care Costs

Extracranial Procedures Without Cc/Mcc in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 039: Extracranial procedures without cc/mcc

$77,580typical hospital bill
$10,309typical amount paid
$8,399–$17,717range paid across 14 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $77,580 for this stay in 2024, about 7.5 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
Independence Health System Butler Memorial HospitaButler11$28,512$8,399
Upmc WilliamsportWilliamsport11$44,239$8,454
Penn Highlands DuboisDubois18$16,316$8,467
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown19$44,885$8,807
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton12$133,691$8,835
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne11$46,059$10,022
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood13$51,566$10,160
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre11$138,204$10,458
Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh11$63,566$10,791
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville13$161,155$11,342
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem19$123,613$11,818
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia17$128,796$13,674
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown16$155,659$15,058
Wellspan York HospitalYork11$91,594$17,717

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.