US Health Care Costs

Hip or thigh bone surgery (not replacement), with complications in Virginia

MS-DRG 481: Hip and femur procedures except major joint with cc

$71,800typical hospital bill
$15,864typical amount paid
$13,451–$26,907range paid across 44 hospitals

Virginia hospitals billed Medicare a typical $71,800 for this stay in 2024, about 4.5 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
Fauquier HospitalWarrenton16$103,582$13,451
Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical CenterWilliamsburg36$70,124$13,499
Sentara Martha Jefferson HospitalCharlottesville39$43,593$13,603
Chesapeake General HospitalChesapeake39$57,722$14,192
Sentara Obici HospitalSuffolk40$62,847$14,266
Cjw Medical CenterRichmond80$301,066$14,273
Sentara Virginia Beach General HospitalVirginia Beach53$78,796$14,337
Sentara Leigh HospitalNorfolk46$61,086$14,361
Bon Secours Southside Medical CenterPetersburg26$162,987$14,542
Sentara Careplex HospitalHampton19$55,657$14,654
Uva Health Haymarket Medical CenterHaymarket16$56,725$14,935
John Randolph Medical CenterHopewell14$210,001$14,963
Reston Hospital CenterReston40$126,008$15,096
Sentara Halifax Regional HospitalSouth Boston12$68,219$15,131
Bon Secours St Marys HospitalRichmond33$82,841$15,155
Henrico Doctors' HospitalRichmond74$239,218$15,158
Inova Loudoun HospitalLeesburg70$58,833$15,261
Mary Washington HospitalFredericksburg70$42,739$15,287
Bon Secours St Francis Medical CenterMidlothian32$103,151$15,515
Centra Health - Lynchburg Gen HospitalLynchburg113$73,475$15,745
Inova Mount Vernon HospitalAlexandria16$63,172$15,823
Sentara Princess Anne HospitalVirginia Beach29$62,954$15,853
Uva Health Prince William Medical CenterManassas11$62,596$15,875
Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical CenterMechanicsville36$84,642$15,917
Virginia Hospital CenterArlington70$54,958$16,030
Augusta HealthFishersville57$79,345$16,092
Inova Fair Oaks HospitalFairfax28$55,963$16,211
Sentara Northern Virginia Medical CenterWoodbridge14$64,689$16,225
Sovah Health DanvilleDanville51$121,978$16,262
Riverside Regional Medical CenterNewport News124$52,175$16,424
Carilion Medical CenterRoanoke148$80,070$16,730
Winchester Medical CenterWinchester90$42,580$17,127
Inova Alexandria HospitalAlexandria21$47,613$17,155
Johnston Memorial HospitalAbingdon20$82,091$17,470
Sentara Rmh Medical CenterHarrisonburg45$45,562$17,529
Carilion New River Valley Medical CenterChristiansburg26$89,527$17,720
Lewisgale Medical CenterSalem68$176,254$18,212
Bon Secours Maryview Medical CenterPortsmouth19$95,917$18,224
Lewisgale Hospital MontgomeryBlacksburg12$140,360$18,360
Inova Fairfax HospitalFalls Church177$57,741$19,283
Uva Health Culpeper Medical CenterCulpeper21$68,486$20,440
Sentara Norfolk General HospitalNorfolk41$95,218$20,732
Medical College of Virginia HospitalsRichmond38$146,494$25,867
University of Virginia Medical CenterCharlottesville56$89,606$26,907

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.