US Health Care Costs

Irregular heartbeat in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 310: Cardiac arrhythmia and conduction disorders without cc/mcc

$26,032typical hospital bill
$4,926typical amount paid
$3,683–$7,855range paid across 57 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $26,032 for this stay in 2024, about 5.3 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 HospitalPittsburgh19$11,519$3,683
Jefferson Lansdale HospitalLansdale11$20,649$3,772
Heritage Valley SewickleySewickley12$8,965$3,938
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia12$56,348$3,978
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown33$19,373$4,014
Upmc PassavantPittsburgh41$29,303$4,035
Paoli HospitalPaoli24$37,385$4,123
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville18$14,567$4,133
Upmc MemorialYork15$29,673$4,155
Excela Health Westmoreland Regional HospitalGreensburg20$8,796$4,158
Sharon Regional Medical CenterSharon23$17,583$4,243
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre25$29,716$4,264
Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg11$27,194$4,270
Penn Highlands DuboisDubois26$7,637$4,277
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterMeadowbrook19$19,200$4,295
Uniontown HospitalUniontown15$13,409$4,356
Chester County HospitalWest Chester28$22,693$4,371
Upmc WilliamsportWilliamsport18$22,956$4,372
Upmc AltoonaAltoona15$14,909$4,424
St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusStroudsburg14$51,308$4,463
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg17$33,001$4,624
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster28$23,805$4,657
Excela Health Latrobe HospitalLatrobe12$9,006$4,666
The Washington HospitalWashington20$8,831$4,720
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg11$26,032$4,752
Independence Health System Butler Memorial HospitaButler18$15,967$4,788
Regional Hospital of ScrantonScranton32$21,436$4,788
Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville34$35,807$4,810
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr29$38,548$4,926
Penn State Health St. JosephReading16$24,440$4,958
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne60$16,735$4,965
Geisinger-Lewistown HospitalLewistown11$28,482$4,975
Saint Vincent HospitalErie12$28,650$5,007
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg41$27,972$5,019
Heritage Valley BeaverBeaver19$9,221$5,045
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton20$49,854$5,055
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia17$16,711$5,112
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill19$24,138$5,114
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre14$54,047$5,115
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington39$22,033$5,274
Upmc HamotErie31$32,361$5,281
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown48$31,309$5,341
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood41$44,277$5,514
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton13$22,423$5,517
Reading HospitalWest Reading26$29,186$5,530
Robert Packer HospitalSayre25$19,400$5,724
Penn State Health Lancaster Medical CenterLancaster11$23,474$5,736
Pennsylvania HospitalPhiladelphia14$55,739$5,795
Upmc HanoverHanover16$29,559$6,178
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston40$50,106$6,393
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia23$34,183$6,432
Wellspan York HospitalYork26$24,237$6,495
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville19$33,703$6,500
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh37$40,731$7,372
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem36$44,224$7,381
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia15$33,237$7,664
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia47$38,580$7,855

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.