US Health Care Costs

Heart catheterization in New Hampshire

MS-DRG 287: Circulatory disorders except ami, with cardiac catheterization without mcc

$53,919typical hospital bill
$9,012typical amount paid
$8,022–$14,432range paid across 8 hospitals

New Hampshire hospitals billed Medicare a typical $53,919 for this stay in 2024, about 6.0 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
Parkland Medical CenterDerry11$126,297$8,022
Catholic Medical CenterManchester47$51,052$8,503
Southern Nh Medical CenterNashua12$39,733$8,619
Elliot HospitalManchester15$31,238$8,785
Wentworth-Douglass HospitalDover35$44,200$9,239
Concord HospitalConcord25$56,786$10,246
Portsmouth Regional HospitalPortsmouth15$85,600$11,000
Mary Hitchcock Memorial HospitalLebanon31$58,857$14,432

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.