US Health Care Costs

High blood pressure in California

MS-DRG 305: Hypertension without mcc

$60,756typical hospital bill
$8,423typical amount paid
$7,284–$15,569range paid across 55 hospitals

California hospitals billed Medicare a typical $60,756 for this stay in 2024, about 7.2 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
Pih Health Hospital-WhittierWhittier13$57,576$7,284
Shasta Regional Medical CenterRedding14$36,162$7,290
Scripps Memorial Hospital La JollaLa Jolla21$53,305$7,355
Enloe HealthChico12$73,334$7,377
Hoag Memorial Hospital PresbyterianNewport Beach14$35,481$7,416
Torrance Memorial Medical CenterTorrance16$66,880$7,472
Usc Verdugo Hills HospitalGlendale12$57,633$7,535
Oroville HospitalOroville26$26,395$7,581
Ucla West Valley Medical CenterWest Hills20$98,986$7,590
Clovis Community Medical CenterClovis11$31,432$7,595
Adventist Health BakersfieldBakersfield11$66,765$7,634
Desert Valley HospitalVictorville25$29,290$7,754
Mercy Hospital of FolsomFolsom11$65,222$7,781
St Johns Regional Medical CenterOxnard15$50,724$7,852
Los Robles Hospital & Medical CenterThousand Oaks32$80,124$7,891
Huntington HospitalPasadena25$76,746$8,045
Uci Health - Fountain ValleyFountain Valley25$91,688$8,068
Los Angeles Community HospitalLos Angeles13$25,468$8,105
Mercy Medical Center ReddingRedding14$80,920$8,105
Centinela Hospital Medical CenterInglewood37$29,421$8,138
Adventist Health and RideoutMarysville11$60,756$8,168
Providence Little Company of Mary Med Ctr TorranceTorrance14$57,080$8,175
Glendale Mem Hospital & Hlth CenterGlendale15$58,138$8,344
Grossmont HospitalLa Mesa33$47,363$8,363
Pomona Valley Hospital Medical CenterPomona11$77,624$8,411
Memorial Medical CenterModesto21$49,287$8,414
Mercy San Juan Medical CenterCarmichael21$62,821$8,421
Scripps Memorial Hospital - EncinitasEncinitas18$45,664$8,423
John Muir Medical Center - Walnut Creek CampusWalnut Creek19$96,432$8,525
Northridge Hospital Medical CenterNorthridge13$103,299$8,534
Glendale Adventist Medical CenterGlendale34$78,403$8,578
Saint Agnes Medical CenterFresno21$33,602$8,613
Community Hospital of the Monterey PeninsulaMonterey12$64,231$8,616
Good Samaritan HospitalSan Jose22$121,254$8,623
Sharp Memorial HospitalSan Diego21$59,722$8,653
El Camino HealthMountain View13$75,121$8,678
Eisenhower Medical CenterRancho Mirage30$67,757$8,696
Mercy Medical CenterMerced18$81,513$8,765
Emanate Health Inter-Community HospitalCovina12$44,173$8,829
Paradise Valley HospitalNational City12$32,090$8,910
Kaweah Health Medical CenterVisalia18$33,331$8,911
Sutter Delta Medical CenterAntioch17$58,338$8,987
Community Regional Medical CenterFresno15$69,621$9,075
Henry Mayo Newhall HospitalValencia11$80,625$9,300
West Anaheim Medical CenterAnaheim20$35,250$9,360
Sutter Medical Center, SacramentoSacramento14$55,541$9,467
Sutter Roseville Medical CenterRoseville18$55,589$9,864
Riverside Community HospitalRiverside15$127,788$10,142
Sharp Chula Vista Medical CenterChula Vista33$60,880$10,292
Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterLos Angeles37$113,248$10,357
Temecula Valley HospitalTemecula11$69,739$10,520
Loma Linda University Medical CenterLoma Linda14$46,320$12,580
Stanford Health CareStanford13$124,835$12,963
Santa Clara Valley Medical CenterSan Jose13$58,168$13,514
University of California Davis Medical CenterSacramento12$66,615$15,569

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.