US Health Care Costs

Heart attack, with major complications in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 280: Acute myocardial infarction, discharged alive with mcc

$58,132typical hospital bill
$12,608typical amount paid
$9,858–$27,825range paid across 76 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $58,132 for this stay in 2024, about 4.6 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
Wellspan Ephrata Community HospitalEphrata16$44,980$9,858
Allegheny Valley HospitalNatrona17$30,130$10,080
Jefferson Lansdale HospitalLansdale16$37,297$10,158
Penn Highlands Mon ValleyMonongahela16$34,130$10,276
Paoli HospitalPaoli21$87,488$10,318
Lehigh Valley Hospital - HazletonHazleton14$56,744$10,378
Upmc PassavantPittsburgh26$93,605$10,420
Excela Health - Frick HospitalMount Pleasant13$21,054$10,543
St Clair HospitalPittsburgh20$41,821$10,746
Excela Health Westmoreland Regional HospitalGreensburg49$31,652$10,778
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill33$68,782$10,863
Upmc NorthwestSeneca15$32,749$10,869
Sharon Regional Medical CenterSharon17$43,373$10,944
Independence Health System Butler Memorial HospitaButler21$32,859$10,947
Uniontown HospitalUniontown35$23,661$11,059
Upmc EastMonroeville24$63,760$11,140
Indiana Regional Medical CenterIndiana13$23,249$11,141
Excela Health Latrobe HospitalLatrobe18$19,866$11,255
Chester County HospitalWest Chester32$64,561$11,335
Pottstown HospitalPottstown14$75,586$11,402
Penn Highlands DuboisDubois22$25,279$11,447
Penn State Health Hampden Medical CenterEnola15$42,525$11,537
Forbes HospitalMonroeville30$57,999$11,694
Upmc WilliamsportWilliamsport30$47,029$11,734
Upmc JamesonNew Castle24$32,730$11,776
Jefferson HospitalJefferson Hills14$58,911$11,791
Regional Hospital of ScrantonScranton36$70,486$11,841
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterMeadowbrook50$46,542$11,862
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton11$109,133$12,003
Meadville Medical CenterMeadville13$24,363$12,006
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown22$50,830$12,043
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville23$49,397$12,085
Upmc AltoonaAltoona72$54,061$12,108
The Washington HospitalWashington11$21,259$12,241
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster101$53,577$12,275
Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville22$77,876$12,408
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne31$44,735$12,495
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr14$100,328$12,516
Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg39$43,185$12,699
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre15$75,615$12,746
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre19$138,247$12,788
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg73$42,267$12,852
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington41$51,404$12,874
Penn State Health St. JosephReading24$66,572$13,053
Temple Health - Chestnut Hill HospitalPhiladelphia23$125,255$13,199
Upmc HamotErie49$109,838$13,728
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg25$49,841$13,772
Wellspan Good Samaritan HospitalLebanon32$39,774$13,907
Saint Vincent HospitalErie21$75,793$14,069
Penn State Health Lancaster Medical CenterLancaster14$58,266$14,137
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown97$107,295$14,249
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia50$51,698$14,310
Upmc McKeesport HospitalMc Keesport12$57,496$14,469
Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College17$39,854$14,508
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood22$94,263$14,513
Roxborough Memorial HospitalPhiladelphia11$61,489$14,562
Upmc MercyPittsburgh15$97,965$14,574
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown27$42,341$15,176
Reading HospitalWest Reading74$72,076$15,205
Wellspan York HospitalYork41$73,047$15,213
Crozer Chester Medical CenterUpland34$113,680$15,320
Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh20$68,099$15,353
Robert Packer HospitalSayre32$48,955$15,369
Lower Bucks HospitalBristol12$78,746$15,440
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem14$132,328$15,441
Nazareth HospitalPhiladelphia14$44,801$16,112
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville43$91,363$16,323
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton33$58,794$16,569
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia45$111,244$16,984
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh50$170,170$17,802
Mercy Catholic Medical Center- Mercy FitzgeraldDarby22$72,361$18,658
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey31$108,902$19,330
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia32$95,186$19,458
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia HospitalPhiladelphia50$86,541$20,363
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia77$179,740$21,899
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia23$247,249$27,825

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.