US Health Care Costs

Stomach or intestinal bleeding, with complications in Virginia

MS-DRG 378: Gastrointestinal hemorrhage with cc

$35,074typical hospital bill
$8,125typical amount paid
$6,097–$15,729range paid across 48 hospitals

Virginia hospitals billed Medicare a typical $35,074 for this stay in 2024, about 4.3 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
Riverside Walter Reed HospitalGloucester25$21,966$6,097
Riverside Doctors' Hospital of WilliamsburgWilliamsburg13$21,350$6,391
Cjw Medical CenterRichmond97$83,094$7,005
Sentara Martha Jefferson HospitalCharlottesville42$25,325$7,134
Chesapeake General HospitalChesapeake85$24,176$7,171
Fauquier HospitalWarrenton16$46,611$7,185
Mary Immaculate HospitalNewport News15$36,319$7,195
Uva Health Haymarket Medical CenterHaymarket21$30,891$7,208
Bon Secours Southside Medical CenterPetersburg42$116,706$7,362
Sentara Virginia Beach General HospitalVirginia Beach55$35,707$7,397
Sentara Princess Anne HospitalVirginia Beach71$35,134$7,467
Centra Health - Lynchburg Gen HospitalLynchburg132$38,279$7,589
Reston Hospital CenterReston26$45,605$7,669
Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical CenterWilliamsburg47$35,175$7,690
Henrico Doctors' HospitalRichmond67$79,151$7,798
Sentara Leigh HospitalNorfolk68$35,014$7,831
Mary Washington HospitalFredericksburg92$23,993$7,846
Inova Fair Oaks HospitalFairfax41$33,016$7,888
Sentara Halifax Regional HospitalSouth Boston11$27,227$7,893
Southside Community Hospital, IncFarmville15$34,858$7,898
Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical CenterMechanicsville97$40,480$7,901
Inova Loudoun HospitalLeesburg53$35,275$7,942
Virginia Hospital CenterArlington64$26,061$7,970
Bon Secours St Marys HospitalRichmond59$45,181$8,119
Sentara Obici HospitalSuffolk60$38,491$8,130
Winchester Medical CenterWinchester147$20,091$8,191
Augusta HealthFishersville56$24,808$8,285
Inova Mount Vernon HospitalAlexandria26$31,263$8,351
Sentara Rmh Medical CenterHarrisonburg48$25,283$8,395
Sentara Northern Virginia Medical CenterWoodbridge33$40,418$8,468
Sovah Health DanvilleDanville21$60,803$8,501
Johnston Memorial HospitalAbingdon24$30,623$8,530
Stafford Hospital, LLCStafford21$21,827$8,628
Uva Health Culpeper Medical CenterCulpeper11$26,002$8,641
Carilion Medical CenterRoanoke81$38,896$8,718
Inova Alexandria HospitalAlexandria61$29,208$8,830
Riverside Regional Medical CenterNewport News79$29,123$8,897
Lewisgale Medical CenterSalem73$69,847$8,938
Bon Secours St Francis Medical CenterMidlothian36$46,783$8,963
Sentara Careplex HospitalHampton33$33,196$9,053
Bon Secours Maryview Medical CenterPortsmouth34$21,975$9,069
Uva Health Prince William Medical CenterManassas26$31,031$9,192
Lewisgale Hospital MontgomeryBlacksburg14$48,515$9,520
Sentara Norfolk General HospitalNorfolk40$41,446$10,416
Carilion New River Valley Medical CenterChristiansburg27$36,150$10,704
Inova Fairfax HospitalFalls Church139$31,665$10,904
Medical College of Virginia HospitalsRichmond51$60,212$14,089
University of Virginia Medical CenterCharlottesville61$52,447$15,729

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.