US Health Care Costs

Interstitial Lung Disease with Mcc in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 196: Interstitial lung disease with mcc

$105,374typical hospital bill
$17,016typical amount paid
$13,323–$24,918range paid across 10 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $105,374 for this stay in 2024, about 6.2 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
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown14$54,549$13,323
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton11$97,519$14,735
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington12$40,985$15,702
Reading HospitalWest Reading12$66,076$16,394
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster13$71,348$16,612
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre13$122,493$17,419
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown16$122,751$17,672
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem12$113,229$19,455
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia27$195,339$24,072
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia14$178,725$24,918

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.