US Health Care Costs

Gastrointestinal Obstruction with Mcc in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 388: Gastrointestinal obstruction with mcc

$64,867typical hospital bill
$13,201typical amount paid
$10,298–$24,759range paid across 23 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $64,867 for this stay in 2024, about 4.9 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
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill11$71,172$10,298
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville14$64,867$10,663
Chester County HospitalWest Chester14$54,276$10,776
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg11$63,594$11,330
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr13$96,032$11,520
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne12$40,365$11,899
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia12$41,212$12,194
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster24$39,955$12,253
Reading HospitalWest Reading17$52,983$12,485
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington29$50,576$12,821
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood13$78,690$12,989
Saint Vincent HospitalErie11$66,500$13,201
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg21$46,656$13,341
Robert Packer HospitalSayre11$33,015$13,580
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown25$85,978$13,925
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton11$74,259$14,673
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem14$97,513$15,607
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville13$94,620$15,697
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia14$62,332$19,517
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia16$193,020$19,662
Wellspan York HospitalYork15$50,704$21,367
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh21$286,801$22,266
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia23$229,638$24,759

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.