US Health Care Costs

Irregular heartbeat, with major complications in Virginia

MS-DRG 308: Cardiac arrhythmia and conduction disorders with mcc

$38,819typical hospital bill
$10,110typical amount paid
$7,753–$18,287range paid across 47 hospitals

Virginia hospitals billed Medicare a typical $38,819 for this stay in 2024, about 3.8 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
Riverside Doctors' Hospital of WilliamsburgWilliamsburg15$20,662$7,753
Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical CenterWilliamsburg33$44,850$8,402
Chesapeake General HospitalChesapeake62$25,873$8,658
Mary Immaculate HospitalNewport News15$34,819$8,665
Sentara Obici HospitalSuffolk41$36,178$8,677
Fauquier HospitalWarrenton13$62,103$8,803
Sentara Martha Jefferson HospitalCharlottesville42$25,166$8,887
Sentara Princess Anne HospitalVirginia Beach32$40,844$8,919
Henrico Doctors' HospitalRichmond30$95,559$8,950
Cjw Medical CenterRichmond46$107,927$9,117
Bon Secours St Marys HospitalRichmond41$50,689$9,206
Augusta HealthFishersville23$30,127$9,319
Stafford Hospital, LLCStafford13$30,444$9,486
Sentara Careplex HospitalHampton20$32,072$9,577
Centra Health - Lynchburg Gen HospitalLynchburg76$47,126$9,728
Inova Loudoun HospitalLeesburg57$38,819$9,835
Winchester Medical CenterWinchester85$23,258$9,851
Mary Washington HospitalFredericksburg54$24,543$9,865
Sentara Virginia Beach General HospitalVirginia Beach71$49,602$9,908
Virginia Hospital CenterArlington33$24,060$9,942
Bon Secours St Francis Medical CenterMidlothian35$35,419$9,947
Inova Fair Oaks HospitalFairfax18$26,007$9,976
Sentara Northern Virginia Medical CenterWoodbridge20$40,770$10,095
Carilion Medical CenterRoanoke59$36,818$10,110
Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical CenterMechanicsville54$49,219$10,118
Bon Secours Southside Medical CenterPetersburg26$123,828$10,189
Johnston Memorial HospitalAbingdon20$36,315$10,206
Bon Secours Maryview Medical CenterPortsmouth18$26,484$10,291
Inova Mount Vernon HospitalAlexandria25$37,867$10,297
Inova Alexandria HospitalAlexandria37$45,150$10,304
Sentara Halifax Regional HospitalSouth Boston18$44,366$10,308
Uva Health Prince William Medical CenterManassas23$48,312$10,399
John Randolph Medical CenterHopewell11$73,452$10,455
Sovah Health DanvilleDanville25$59,713$10,516
Wythe County Community HospitalWytheville11$55,204$10,554
Riverside Regional Medical CenterNewport News60$27,304$10,557
Carilion New River Valley Medical CenterChristiansburg21$33,113$10,614
Sentara Rmh Medical CenterHarrisonburg33$26,193$10,677
Lewisgale Medical CenterSalem29$88,169$10,709
Reston Hospital CenterReston14$68,947$10,913
Lewisgale Hospital MontgomeryBlacksburg12$36,363$11,179
Sentara Leigh HospitalNorfolk42$39,969$11,331
Uva Health Culpeper Medical CenterCulpeper14$29,806$12,480
Inova Fairfax HospitalFalls Church102$37,125$13,385
Sentara Norfolk General HospitalNorfolk44$65,207$14,925
Medical College of Virginia HospitalsRichmond28$64,641$17,024
University of Virginia Medical CenterCharlottesville48$51,713$18,287

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.