US Health Care Costs

Heart failure, with major complications in Virginia

MS-DRG 291: Heart failure and shock with mcc

$36,727typical hospital bill
$10,478typical amount paid
$8,076–$22,298range paid across 69 hospitals

Virginia hospitals billed Medicare a typical $36,727 for this stay in 2024, about 3.5 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 Doctors' Hospital of WilliamsburgWilliamsburg53$20,701$8,076
Uva Health Haymarket Medical CenterHaymarket79$26,860$8,559
Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical CenterWilliamsburg119$38,054$8,592
Riverside Walter Reed HospitalGloucester65$26,616$8,729
Sentara Martha Jefferson HospitalCharlottesville153$25,647$8,761
Fauquier HospitalWarrenton51$50,808$8,934
Chesapeake General HospitalChesapeake254$23,644$9,094
Cjw Medical CenterRichmond287$97,218$9,191
Sentara Obici HospitalSuffolk272$37,497$9,230
John Randolph Medical CenterHopewell67$68,478$9,235
Sentara Virginia Beach General HospitalVirginia Beach334$40,769$9,256
Sentara Princess Anne HospitalVirginia Beach243$36,727$9,455
Mary Immaculate HospitalNewport News65$39,161$9,508
Clinch Valley Medical CenterRichlands50$49,632$9,512
Riverside Shore Memorial HospitalOnancock34$20,361$9,563
Southside Community Hospital, IncFarmville95$36,126$9,634
Community Memorial HospitalSouth Hill97$35,841$9,737
Bon Secours Southside Medical CenterPetersburg167$102,347$9,754
Mary Washington HospitalFredericksburg356$21,250$9,837
Sentara Leigh HospitalNorfolk280$36,650$9,875
Stafford Hospital, LLCStafford69$18,484$9,905
Spotsylvania Regional Medical CenterFredericksburg94$48,231$9,917
Henrico Doctors' HospitalRichmond209$79,950$9,932
Bon Secours St Francis Medical CenterMidlothian162$35,552$9,942
Bon Secours St Marys HospitalRichmond224$45,326$9,952
Stonesprings Hospital CenterDulles27$41,693$10,001
Inova Loudoun HospitalLeesburg292$39,189$10,068
Inova Fair Oaks HospitalFairfax178$34,704$10,072
Sentara Halifax Regional HospitalSouth Boston96$25,899$10,153
Centra Bedford Memorial HospitalBedford38$33,764$10,295
Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical CenterMechanicsville284$38,511$10,314
Virginia Hospital CenterArlington222$29,923$10,331
Augusta HealthFishersville210$23,867$10,349
Russell County HospitalLebanon22$36,520$10,386
Winchester Medical CenterWinchester461$21,078$10,478
Riverside Regional Medical CenterNewport News294$28,232$10,527
Centra Health - Lynchburg Gen HospitalLynchburg374$40,755$10,531
Uva Health Culpeper Medical CenterCulpeper100$26,403$10,536
Inova Alexandria HospitalAlexandria213$38,095$10,582
Sentara Careplex HospitalHampton106$39,073$10,628
Twin County Regional HospitalGalax28$50,644$10,639
Sovah Health DanvilleDanville124$49,462$10,856
Uva Health Prince William Medical CenterManassas137$30,577$10,867
Inova Mount Vernon HospitalAlexandria82$41,553$10,875
Carilion Franklin Memorial HospitalRocky Mount57$29,263$10,948
Smyth County Community HospitalMarion18$29,727$10,952
Lewisgale Hospital AlleghanyLow Moor57$40,475$10,959
Reston Hospital CenterReston89$59,655$10,961
Carilion New River Valley Medical CenterChristiansburg151$42,686$11,001
Bon Secours Maryview Medical CenterPortsmouth118$29,676$11,123
Sentara Northern Virginia Medical CenterWoodbridge175$38,925$11,344
Vcu Health Tappahannock HospitalTappahannock49$23,063$11,392
Sentara Rmh Medical CenterHarrisonburg256$24,017$11,412
Wythe County Community HospitalWytheville24$45,354$11,419
Lewisgale Hospital PulaskiPulaski21$45,846$11,447
Buchanan General HospitalGrundy11$31,612$11,524
Lewisgale Medical CenterSalem137$58,167$11,589
Johnston Memorial HospitalAbingdon73$35,260$11,593
Carilion Medical CenterRoanoke334$40,585$11,612
Carilion Tazewell Community HospitalTazewell21$37,282$11,669
Warren Memorial HospitalFront Royal61$19,373$11,714
Bon Secours Southampton Memorial HospitalFranklin19$27,980$11,779
Lewisgale Hospital MontgomeryBlacksburg48$43,053$12,503
Bon Secours Richmond Community HospitalRichmond11$22,259$12,664
Inova Fairfax HospitalFalls Church492$36,724$13,397
Lonesome Pine HospitalBig Stone Gap36$29,036$13,991
Sentara Norfolk General HospitalNorfolk251$50,754$14,058
University of Virginia Medical CenterCharlottesville269$66,105$21,418
Medical College of Virginia HospitalsRichmond230$76,701$22,298

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.