US Health Care Costs

Kidney failure, with major complications in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 682: Renal failure with mcc

$54,915typical hospital bill
$11,747typical amount paid
$9,336–$22,693range paid across 93 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $54,915 for this stay in 2024, about 4.7 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
Allegheny Valley HospitalNatrona13$34,181$9,336
Upmc PassavantPittsburgh24$71,134$9,376
Wellspan Evangelical Community HospitalLewisburg21$58,797$9,637
St Clair HospitalPittsburgh30$29,561$9,687
Jefferson HospitalJefferson Hills26$46,875$9,689
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill27$44,921$9,757
Jefferson Lansdale HospitalLansdale27$43,933$9,863
Upmc NorthwestSeneca16$32,156$9,944
Upmc CarlisleCarlisle17$49,044$9,985
Penn Highlands DuboisDubois30$19,526$10,110
Geisinger St. Luke's HospitalOrwigsburg42$55,152$10,112
Wellspan Ephrata Community HospitalEphrata14$34,128$10,172
Heritage Valley SewickleySewickley11$19,297$10,232
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville37$39,788$10,265
Excela Health - Frick HospitalMount Pleasant12$24,617$10,283
Excela Health Westmoreland Regional HospitalGreensburg24$36,274$10,303
Pottstown HospitalPottstown16$56,932$10,315
Independence Health System Butler Memorial HospitaButler14$48,568$10,345
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown63$35,146$10,361
Upmc EastMonroeville19$72,026$10,364
Paoli HospitalPaoli54$83,300$10,410
The Washington HospitalWashington14$14,880$10,602
Lehigh Valley Hospital - HazletonHazleton43$58,965$10,604
Upmc St MargaretPittsburgh22$67,554$10,705
St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusStroudsburg41$105,238$10,749
Chester County HospitalWest Chester43$57,354$10,806
Ahn Wexford HospitalWexford12$39,143$10,821
Regional Hospital of ScrantonScranton55$52,548$10,940
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre54$69,721$11,019
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia39$64,132$11,065
Upmc JamesonNew Castle12$37,175$11,117
Uniontown HospitalUniontown18$23,717$11,128
Schuylkill Medical Center - South Jackson StreetPottsville16$64,579$11,168
Heritage Valley BeaverBeaver17$21,921$11,226
Upmc MemorialYork12$53,151$11,242
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne29$40,233$11,272
Indiana Regional Medical CenterIndiana15$36,765$11,337
Forbes HospitalMonroeville21$54,915$11,406
St Luke's Hospital - Carbon CampusLehighton19$87,398$11,423
Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg21$48,817$11,436
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterMeadowbrook34$51,293$11,504
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg32$69,042$11,544
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr66$79,883$11,588
Wellspan Good Samaritan HospitalLebanon31$34,370$11,665
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg63$35,076$11,677
Excela Health Latrobe HospitalLatrobe12$36,060$11,688
Upmc AltoonaAltoona35$52,959$11,747
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster65$42,647$11,787
Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville17$56,528$11,806
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton62$108,031$11,925
Upmc WilliamsportWilliamsport35$46,396$11,964
Geisinger-Lewistown HospitalLewistown23$43,751$12,010
Upmc HanoverHanover23$36,372$12,132
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre67$98,189$12,345
St Luke's Hospital - Upper Bucks CampusQuakertown38$110,059$12,555
Wellspan Waynesboro HospitalWaynesboro18$29,076$12,579
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington85$54,556$12,624
Wayne Memorial HospitalHonesdale23$44,537$12,813
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia44$44,232$12,864
Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College17$38,682$12,914
Reading HospitalWest Reading73$56,768$13,147
St Luke's Miners Memorial HospitalCoaldale30$80,817$13,275
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown25$31,886$13,276
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown166$83,708$13,287
Wellspan York HospitalYork82$50,209$13,322
Robert Packer HospitalSayre41$49,791$13,438
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg41$65,376$13,440
Upmc HamotErie41$121,932$13,468
Temple Health - Chestnut Hill HospitalPhiladelphia34$125,496$13,527
Crozer Chester Medical CenterUpland37$97,822$13,540
Roxborough Memorial HospitalPhiladelphia14$53,360$13,723
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia11$82,315$13,836
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton34$50,182$13,848
Nazareth HospitalPhiladelphia18$48,450$13,946
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood45$93,475$13,988
Penn State Health St. JosephReading21$85,378$14,373
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem95$112,591$14,987
Lower Bucks HospitalBristol11$55,509$15,198
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville61$90,481$15,333
Upmc MercyPittsburgh12$99,989$15,340
Penn State Health Lancaster Medical CenterLancaster15$55,400$15,566
Penn State Health Hampden Medical CenterEnola11$40,599$15,666
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh54$140,076$15,800
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey44$68,312$16,565
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston66$103,130$16,677
Saint Vincent HospitalErie21$125,926$16,866
Pennsylvania HospitalPhiladelphia19$156,688$18,882
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia45$163,869$18,966
Mercy Catholic Medical Center- Mercy FitzgeraldDarby12$74,881$19,074
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia40$77,487$19,462
Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh15$102,664$21,938
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia HospitalPhiladelphia50$68,718$22,011
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia36$174,184$22,693

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.