US Health Care Costs

High blood pressure in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 305: Hypertension without mcc

$33,382typical hospital bill
$6,811typical amount paid
$5,375–$10,161range paid across 38 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $33,382 for this stay in 2024, about 4.9 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
Paoli HospitalPaoli29$51,929$5,375
Pottstown HospitalPottstown13$47,105$5,515
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill21$32,751$5,652
Chester County HospitalWest Chester22$31,449$5,674
Forbes HospitalMonroeville17$22,382$5,824
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown13$24,034$5,863
St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusStroudsburg19$51,996$5,898
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr24$49,245$5,981
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton17$52,121$6,027
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster22$27,576$6,167
Upmc HanoverHanover14$37,706$6,181
Jefferson Lansdale HospitalLansdale13$24,625$6,183
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg17$29,284$6,242
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne36$25,785$6,257
Wellspan York HospitalYork23$32,400$6,518
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington60$26,288$6,570
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterMeadowbrook11$19,885$6,618
Saint Vincent HospitalErie11$35,692$6,698
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg15$33,891$6,761
Reading HospitalWest Reading32$32,874$6,861
Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College13$25,533$6,868
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia13$25,255$6,883
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre29$59,946$6,909
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown61$49,600$6,967
Upmc HamotErie16$50,073$6,981
Penn State Health St. JosephReading13$25,660$7,066
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood26$52,010$7,089
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown13$22,630$7,295
Penn State Health Lancaster Medical CenterLancaster11$29,757$7,518
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem24$69,502$7,606
Robert Packer HospitalSayre13$28,147$7,688
Penn State Health Hampden Medical CenterEnola11$26,636$7,781
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton12$36,797$7,906
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville16$55,977$8,428
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh12$81,373$8,462
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston26$49,910$8,766
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey14$40,614$8,879
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia14$52,566$10,161

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.