US Health Care Costs

High blood pressure in Maryland

MS-DRG 305: Hypertension without mcc

$12,212typical hospital bill
$11,025typical amount paid
$5,246–$15,743range paid across 22 hospitals

Maryland hospitals billed Medicare a typical $12,212 for this stay in 2024, about 1.1 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
Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical CenterColumbia11$5,616$5,246
University of Md St Joseph Medical CenterTowson22$7,150$6,393
Suburban HospitalBethesda28$7,672$6,886
Frederick Health HospitalFrederick23$8,522$7,683
Adventist Healthcare Shady Grove Medical CenterRockville17$9,360$8,344
Medstar Franklin Square Medical CenterRosedale27$9,676$8,723
Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center, IncAnnapolis20$9,959$9,125
Adventist Healthcare White Oak Medical CenterSilver Spring11$10,697$9,763
Medstar Union Memorial HospitalBaltimore11$11,179$9,910
Greater Baltimore Medical CenterBaltimore15$11,690$10,266
Tidalhealth Peninsula Regional, IncSalisbury14$12,136$10,892
Saint Agnes HospitalBaltimore12$12,786$11,158
Medstar Good Samaritan HospitalBaltimore20$12,570$11,165
Luminis Health Doctors Community Medical Ctr, IncLanham13$12,288$11,680
Medstar Harbor HospitalBaltimore12$12,782$11,690
University of Maryland Medical CenterBaltimore13$12,789$11,751
Meritus Medical CenterHagerstown19$13,236$12,085
Umd Upper Chesapeake Medical CenterBel Air17$13,662$12,752
Sinai Hospital of BaltimoreBaltimore21$14,522$12,878
Northwest Hospital CenterRandallstown15$15,263$13,665
Western Maryland Regional Medical CenterCumberland15$15,682$13,922
The Johns Hopkins HospitalBaltimore19$17,977$15,743

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.