US Health Care Costs

Fainting in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 312: Syncope and collapse

$38,934typical hospital bill
$7,210typical amount paid
$5,862–$12,496range paid across 78 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $38,934 for this stay in 2024, about 5.4 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 HospitalLansdale22$22,437$5,862
Jefferson HospitalJefferson Hills17$27,028$5,885
Upmc PassavantPittsburgh21$56,987$5,937
Wellspan Evangelical Community HospitalLewisburg20$40,764$5,951
Upmc CarlisleCarlisle21$31,223$6,112
Excela Health Westmoreland Regional HospitalGreensburg14$16,141$6,201
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown29$23,058$6,207
Regional Hospital of ScrantonScranton21$46,865$6,222
Lehigh Valley Hospital - HazletonHazleton24$42,945$6,225
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville49$35,292$6,265
Upmc NorthwestSeneca13$21,962$6,269
Pottstown HospitalPottstown28$53,922$6,271
Paoli HospitalPaoli69$56,446$6,286
Indiana Regional Medical CenterIndiana13$20,466$6,364
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill58$34,675$6,402
Upmc MemorialYork14$28,743$6,407
Upmc JamesonNew Castle15$14,919$6,436
Chester County HospitalWest Chester63$34,594$6,490
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia44$50,955$6,492
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre62$39,618$6,523
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterMeadowbrook28$25,967$6,538
Penn Highlands DuboisDubois17$22,884$6,570
Uniontown HospitalUniontown29$16,403$6,609
Upmc WilliamsportWilliamsport23$43,715$6,621
Forbes HospitalMonroeville15$34,145$6,700
The Washington HospitalWashington22$11,709$6,803
Upmc AltoonaAltoona30$24,566$6,812
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr54$52,574$6,828
Upmc HorizonGreenville12$36,016$6,845
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton35$65,589$6,935
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg16$45,097$6,946
Excela Health Latrobe HospitalLatrobe11$11,414$6,970
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg45$25,402$6,990
St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusStroudsburg19$58,516$7,011
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster50$32,497$7,020
Schuylkill Medical Center - South Jackson StreetPottsville15$44,827$7,041
Geisinger-Lewistown HospitalLewistown16$40,833$7,093
Penn State Health St. JosephReading26$35,587$7,123
Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville32$50,976$7,147
Upmc HanoverHanover21$31,780$7,273
Upmc St MargaretPittsburgh12$45,449$7,299
Heritage Valley BeaverBeaver12$17,091$7,343
Roxborough Memorial HospitalPhiladelphia11$26,293$7,418
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington106$31,051$7,438
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg69$35,752$7,442
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne53$31,596$7,458
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre44$65,556$7,583
Saint Vincent HospitalErie22$51,887$7,809
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown206$53,037$7,857
Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College21$29,243$7,872
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia44$31,629$7,899
Reading HospitalWest Reading149$41,139$7,969
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood70$54,148$8,118
Robert Packer HospitalSayre20$38,249$8,367
Upmc McKeesport HospitalMc Keesport11$46,580$8,395
Temple Health - Chestnut Hill HospitalPhiladelphia28$94,903$8,447
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton46$38,078$8,471
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown26$24,573$8,503
Upmc HamotErie36$51,687$8,566
Wellspan York HospitalYork55$35,414$8,609
Crozer Chester Medical CenterUpland16$78,866$8,689
Nazareth HospitalPhiladelphia19$34,088$8,906
Pennsylvania HospitalPhiladelphia14$98,538$9,034
Penn State Health Hampden Medical CenterEnola22$39,837$9,044
Wellspan Waynesboro HospitalWaynesboro13$35,692$9,182
Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh23$38,091$9,502
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem55$63,902$9,503
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia35$63,034$9,557
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston46$69,126$9,775
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh41$89,522$9,803
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville36$72,827$10,274
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey30$48,168$10,527
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia33$43,053$10,715
Mercy Catholic Medical Center- Mercy FitzgeraldDarby18$35,703$10,998
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia65$92,983$11,679
Penn State Health Lancaster Medical CenterLancaster19$52,632$11,763
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia34$105,185$11,888
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia HospitalPhiladelphia20$44,047$12,496

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.