US Health Care Costs

Kidney failure, with complications in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 683: Renal failure with cc

$33,021typical hospital bill
$7,405typical amount paid
$5,457–$12,674range paid across 99 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $33,021 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
Canonsburg General HospitalCanonsburg11$31,866$5,457
St Clair HospitalPittsburgh26$21,015$5,806
Jefferson Lansdale HospitalLansdale35$25,796$5,965
Upmc CarlisleCarlisle19$22,993$6,088
Heritage Valley SewickleySewickley18$17,000$6,140
Geisinger St. Luke's HospitalOrwigsburg39$38,000$6,147
Allegheny Valley HospitalNatrona16$24,820$6,161
Jefferson HospitalJefferson Hills36$28,828$6,211
Excela Health Westmoreland Regional HospitalGreensburg25$14,278$6,256
Pottstown HospitalPottstown28$47,743$6,261
Paoli HospitalPaoli74$56,074$6,436
Wellspan Evangelical Community HospitalLewisburg23$35,216$6,439
Upmc NorthwestSeneca30$22,707$6,457
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville48$29,442$6,473
Penn Highlands Mon ValleyMonongahela16$16,969$6,479
Sharon Regional Medical CenterSharon11$21,335$6,504
Upmc EastMonroeville24$36,883$6,514
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia71$55,713$6,515
Lehigh Valley Hospital - HazletonHazleton41$39,500$6,545
Ahn Wexford HospitalWexford24$27,213$6,586
Upmc PassavantPittsburgh53$43,714$6,593
Chester County HospitalWest Chester89$34,724$6,608
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown58$24,970$6,614
Independence Health System Butler Memorial HospitaButler22$18,303$6,617
Upmc MemorialYork22$26,534$6,622
Indiana Regional Medical CenterIndiana15$24,618$6,639
Penn Highlands DuboisDubois32$15,988$6,659
Uniontown HospitalUniontown30$19,751$6,705
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill39$39,811$6,719
Upmc JamesonNew Castle23$16,177$6,719
Regional Hospital of ScrantonScranton45$41,474$6,773
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterMeadowbrook41$33,436$6,773
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre54$44,467$6,871
Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg42$25,239$6,874
St Luke's Hospital - Carbon CampusLehighton44$61,732$7,010
Meadville Medical CenterMeadville21$19,193$7,077
Upmc AltoonaAltoona33$30,266$7,084
St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusStroudsburg45$65,657$7,101
Geisinger-Bloomsburg HospitalBloomsburg16$29,749$7,107
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr69$53,887$7,145
Upmc WilliamsportWilliamsport36$30,331$7,158
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg32$49,295$7,163
Forbes HospitalMonroeville29$33,021$7,173
Lehigh Valley Hospital - Dickson CityDickson City16$39,363$7,183
Wellspan Good Samaritan HospitalLebanon23$22,959$7,254
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton69$71,878$7,270
The Washington HospitalWashington26$15,686$7,329
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster86$29,854$7,339
Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville23$55,128$7,391
Heritage Valley BeaverBeaver17$12,854$7,405
Geisinger-Lewistown HospitalLewistown37$31,619$7,460
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg64$22,745$7,523
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne63$28,526$7,617
Wayne Memorial HospitalHonesdale36$32,890$7,649
Wellspan Ephrata Community HospitalEphrata16$30,801$7,716
Schuylkill Medical Center - South Jackson StreetPottsville34$31,627$7,752
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington99$30,441$7,757
Wellspan Waynesboro HospitalWaynesboro17$28,061$7,778
Upmc HanoverHanover44$31,326$7,794
Penn State Health St. JosephReading21$38,145$7,809
Reading HospitalWest Reading73$36,700$7,981
St Luke's Miners Memorial HospitalCoaldale14$38,349$7,993
Upmc St MargaretPittsburgh25$45,667$7,999
Saint Vincent HospitalErie42$38,055$8,030
West Penn HospitalPittsburgh17$47,674$8,032
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia68$25,932$8,048
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre98$65,358$8,055
Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College24$22,358$8,097
Warren General HospitalWarren14$12,590$8,162
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood51$65,902$8,229
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg97$32,938$8,259
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown213$48,723$8,354
Robert Packer HospitalSayre50$29,232$8,397
Wellspan York HospitalYork81$29,640$8,426
St Luke's Hospital - Upper Bucks CampusQuakertown31$64,638$8,493
Upmc HamotErie40$66,423$8,499
Nazareth HospitalPhiladelphia22$31,282$8,614
Crozer Chester Medical CenterUpland34$66,936$8,619
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown38$25,365$8,632
Penn State Health Lancaster Medical CenterLancaster20$34,416$8,638
Temple Health - Chestnut Hill HospitalPhiladelphia36$94,509$8,908
Lower Bucks HospitalBristol11$32,492$9,049
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem84$76,247$9,186
Pennsylvania HospitalPhiladelphia28$68,255$9,225
Independence Health System Clarion HospitalClarion12$13,608$9,253
Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh27$40,434$9,259
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton34$32,737$9,259
Upmc McKeesport HospitalMc Keesport12$66,057$9,668
Upmc MercyPittsburgh12$56,540$9,881
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh66$83,690$9,900
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston94$59,847$10,280
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville87$65,034$10,300
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey75$41,019$10,417
Penn State Health Hampden Medical CenterEnola22$35,211$10,507
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia69$44,560$11,053
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia26$88,259$12,196
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia HospitalPhiladelphia42$41,085$12,236
Mercy Catholic Medical Center- Mercy FitzgeraldDarby17$51,661$12,246
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia40$104,725$12,674

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.