US Health Care Costs

Heart failure, with major complications in West Virginia

MS-DRG 291: Heart failure and shock with mcc

$35,562typical hospital bill
$9,869typical amount paid
$8,111–$13,088range paid across 21 hospitals

West Virginia hospitals billed Medicare a typical $35,562 for this stay in 2024, about 3.6 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
Mon Health MarionWhitehall11$18,780$8,111
Weirton Medical Center, IncWeirton96$24,654$8,171
Rivers HealthPoint Pleasant18$25,334$8,262
Wetzel County HospitalNew Martinsville13$49,181$8,392
Reynolds Memorial Hospital, IncGlen Dale42$17,823$8,396
Raleigh General HospitalBeckley99$29,889$8,859
Mon Health Medical CenterMorgantown104$35,562$8,967
Camden Clark Medical CenterParkersburg216$36,991$9,329
Princeton Community Hospital Assn IncPrinceton126$28,575$9,487
Thomas Memorial HospitalSouth Charleston94$40,431$9,863
Berkeley Medical CenterMartinsburg63$22,188$9,869
United Hospital Center, IncBridgeport156$37,030$9,905
Davis Medical CenterElkins45$17,112$9,914
Wheeling Hospital, IncWheeling124$29,172$9,921
St Marys Medical CenterHuntington142$41,908$10,248
Beckley Arh HospitalBeckley49$57,194$11,271
Camc Greenbrier Valley Medical Center, IncRonceverte54$32,931$11,381
Cabell Huntington Hospital, IncHuntington45$49,503$12,017
Logan Regional Medical CenterLogan73$46,225$12,443
Charleston Area Medical CenterCharleston281$59,281$12,561
West Virginia University Hospitals, IncMorgantown220$46,212$13,088

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.