US Health Care Costs

Irregular heartbeat, with complications in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 309: Cardiac arrhythmia and conduction disorders with cc

$31,893typical hospital bill
$6,337typical amount paid
$4,903–$11,308range paid across 88 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $31,893 for this stay in 2024, about 5.0 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
St Clair HospitalPittsburgh28$14,817$4,903
Heritage Valley SewickleySewickley13$10,964$5,153
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville46$22,999$5,161
Ahn Wexford HospitalWexford15$24,560$5,168
Upmc CarlisleCarlisle21$25,093$5,244
Upmc PassavantPittsburgh37$39,564$5,275
Upmc NorthwestSeneca19$24,678$5,344
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown71$26,455$5,356
Wellspan Evangelical Community HospitalLewisburg22$31,882$5,359
Excela Health Westmoreland Regional HospitalGreensburg37$14,225$5,416
Sharon Regional Medical CenterSharon18$22,449$5,424
Pottstown HospitalPottstown20$49,276$5,454
Jefferson Lansdale HospitalLansdale32$24,496$5,465
Jefferson HospitalJefferson Hills16$36,345$5,471
Upmc EastMonroeville18$39,651$5,477
Excela Health - Frick HospitalMount Pleasant14$12,920$5,478
Upmc MemorialYork24$39,307$5,532
Indiana Regional Medical CenterIndiana13$18,221$5,557
Chester County HospitalWest Chester59$30,825$5,631
Meadville Medical CenterMeadville23$14,683$5,653
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterMeadowbrook34$20,786$5,661
Penn Highlands DuboisDubois21$10,463$5,725
Lehigh Valley Hospital - HazletonHazleton19$34,820$5,729
Paoli HospitalPaoli53$44,362$5,732
Regional Hospital of ScrantonScranton53$34,377$5,783
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia28$48,797$5,786
St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusStroudsburg27$57,561$5,806
Upmc JamesonNew Castle13$10,019$5,832
Upmc AltoonaAltoona29$26,775$5,876
Uniontown HospitalUniontown17$14,277$5,917
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre35$42,652$5,958
Upmc HorizonGreenville11$27,840$5,970
Independence Health System Butler Memorial HospitaButler24$15,261$5,985
Forbes HospitalMonroeville27$33,011$6,037
Upmc WilliamsportWilliamsport46$23,331$6,102
Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg30$28,754$6,152
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton47$60,319$6,175
Excela Health Latrobe HospitalLatrobe18$13,419$6,195
Wellspan Ephrata Community HospitalEphrata23$40,448$6,232
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg34$43,587$6,233
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne100$22,074$6,263
Upmc St MargaretPittsburgh13$33,454$6,294
Schuylkill Medical Center - South Jackson StreetPottsville24$43,986$6,320
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill32$42,924$6,330
Wayne Memorial HospitalHonesdale13$24,103$6,344
St Luke's Hospital - Upper Bucks CampusQuakertown22$63,739$6,358
Upmc LititzLititz17$20,832$6,404
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster70$26,884$6,438
Heritage Valley BeaverBeaver19$9,904$6,450
Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville46$45,668$6,452
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr53$46,942$6,463
Penn State Health St. JosephReading23$30,422$6,475
Saint Vincent HospitalErie43$35,235$6,702
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington103$26,676$6,714
Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College26$27,270$6,768
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg85$30,626$6,783
Wellspan Good Samaritan HospitalLebanon25$24,048$6,810
Upmc HanoverHanover31$31,865$6,857
Warren General HospitalWarren16$17,009$6,868
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia45$24,622$6,872
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre42$54,063$6,888
Wellspan York HospitalYork59$31,904$7,012
Robert Packer HospitalSayre46$28,319$7,016
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown141$46,769$7,033
Crozer Chester Medical CenterUpland22$52,384$7,053
Upmc HamotErie52$44,498$7,059
Reading HospitalWest Reading83$33,207$7,179
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown17$23,296$7,226
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood61$46,802$7,237
Temple Health - Chestnut Hill HospitalPhiladelphia20$86,422$7,249
Penn State Health Hampden Medical CenterEnola11$28,914$7,412
Nazareth HospitalPhiladelphia18$26,934$7,432
Penn State Health Lancaster Medical CenterLancaster21$32,427$7,522
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton47$27,880$7,524
Pennsylvania HospitalPhiladelphia19$61,536$7,568
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg53$30,150$7,751
Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh32$36,767$8,048
Upmc MercyPittsburgh19$40,126$8,106
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston45$51,497$8,145
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem83$57,306$8,210
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh38$67,764$8,416
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville40$57,399$8,491
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia21$37,114$8,718
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia36$37,049$9,216
Mercy Catholic Medical Center- Mercy FitzgeraldDarby19$35,982$9,703
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia29$78,071$10,385
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia75$62,624$10,926
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey41$51,512$11,308

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.