US Health Care Costs

Heart attack, with complications in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 281: Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive with cc

$50,421typical hospital bill
$7,822typical amount paid
$5,882–$14,777range paid across 54 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $50,421 for this stay in 2024, about 6.4 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
Upmc PassavantPittsburgh17$56,059$5,882
Upmc CarlisleCarlisle11$21,105$5,974
Upmc JamesonNew Castle14$23,067$6,027
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville16$33,223$6,193
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown17$28,975$6,396
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia14$59,314$6,471
Excela Health Westmoreland Regional HospitalGreensburg17$18,181$6,486
Wellspan Evangelical Community HospitalLewisburg13$42,659$6,507
Sharon Regional Medical CenterSharon11$28,076$6,670
Penn Highlands DuboisDubois14$17,923$6,689
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre12$79,313$6,707
Regional Hospital of ScrantonScranton25$62,662$6,770
Chester County HospitalWest Chester26$39,662$6,807
Excela Health Latrobe HospitalLatrobe13$11,032$6,829
Forbes HospitalMonroeville16$38,331$6,863
Independence Health System Butler Memorial HospitaButler16$28,003$6,869
Upmc WilliamsportWilliamsport19$35,627$6,934
Uniontown HospitalUniontown19$19,638$7,116
Paoli HospitalPaoli17$66,960$7,144
Upmc AltoonaAltoona12$30,468$7,249
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton12$78,962$7,258
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg11$65,948$7,277
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterMeadowbrook19$27,022$7,363
Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville17$53,439$7,379
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster67$36,642$7,614
Penn State Health St. JosephReading11$56,059$7,746
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington14$45,752$7,773
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg20$35,596$7,871
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg35$33,168$7,882
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia26$32,269$8,083
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne23$33,347$8,160
Wellspan Good Samaritan HospitalLebanon15$31,710$8,168
Reading HospitalWest Reading41$52,790$8,260
Robert Packer HospitalSayre19$31,242$8,356
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood18$63,179$8,502
Temple Health - Chestnut Hill HospitalPhiladelphia15$80,149$8,642
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown80$77,715$8,701
Upmc HamotErie17$65,257$8,836
Crozer Chester Medical CenterUpland11$66,063$8,969
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton16$45,113$9,239
Pennsylvania HospitalPhiladelphia12$113,387$9,292
Wellspan York HospitalYork21$52,647$9,363
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre18$72,912$9,464
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem29$94,064$9,949
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh25$73,305$10,101
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville30$74,169$10,247
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia18$102,892$10,258
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill18$65,977$10,525
Saint Vincent HospitalErie18$87,528$10,851
Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg19$40,480$11,202
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey11$48,195$11,304
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia25$55,379$11,664
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia20$113,146$12,120
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia16$169,562$14,777

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.