US Health Care Costs

Kidney failure, with major complications in Connecticut

MS-DRG 682: Renal failure with mcc

$53,279typical hospital bill
$15,558typical amount paid
$12,776–$23,083range paid across 22 hospitals

Connecticut hospitals billed Medicare a typical $53,279 for this stay in 2024, about 3.4 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
Midstate Medical CenterMeriden51$50,416$12,776
Greenwich Hospital Association -Greenwich43$38,359$12,799
Charlotte Hungerford HospitalTorrington35$54,250$12,939
Manchester Memorial HospitalManchester20$36,426$13,140
Bristol HospitalBristol12$43,791$13,524
Lawrence & Memorial HospitalNew London41$51,456$13,738
William W Backus HospitalNorwich54$51,081$14,118
The Hospital of Central ConnecticutNew Britain49$55,209$14,309
Griffin HospitalDerby29$52,942$14,628
Saint Mary's HospitalWaterbury26$53,616$15,322
Waterbury HospitalWaterbury40$80,671$15,466
Norwalk HospitalNorwalk29$47,015$15,651
Danbury HospitalDanbury89$47,908$15,719
Bridgeport HospitalBridgeport88$42,875$15,720
St Vincent's Medical CenterBridgeport34$60,605$15,860
Middlesex HospitalMiddletown27$71,270$16,210
Stamford HospitalStamford36$73,454$16,317
Hartford HospitalHartford103$61,054$17,667
St Francis Hospital & Medical CenterHartford40$78,591$19,287
Windham Community Memorial HospitalWillimantic12$34,988$20,326
Yale-New Haven HospitalNew Haven127$71,953$21,725
John Dempsey Hospital of the University of ConnectFarmington45$60,294$23,083

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.