US Health Care Costs

Other kidney and urinary problems, with major complications in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 698: Other kidney and urinary tract diagnoses with mcc

$59,171typical hospital bill
$13,187typical amount paid
$9,874–$25,302range paid across 82 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $59,171 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
Penn Highlands DuboisDubois11$32,015$9,874
Jefferson HospitalJefferson Hills18$46,363$10,332
Upmc PassavantPittsburgh34$64,284$10,355
St Clair HospitalPittsburgh29$30,777$10,448
Wellspan Evangelical Community HospitalLewisburg13$59,178$10,534
Upmc CarlisleCarlisle24$42,417$10,639
Jefferson Lansdale HospitalLansdale34$33,941$10,876
Penn Highlands Mon ValleyMonongahela15$27,715$10,920
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville18$48,776$10,944
Pottstown HospitalPottstown35$74,273$11,052
Regional Hospital of ScrantonScranton23$59,164$11,083
Uniontown HospitalUniontown29$28,186$11,174
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill18$69,636$11,209
Wellspan Ephrata Community HospitalEphrata24$53,020$11,269
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia45$98,535$11,311
Geisinger St. Luke's HospitalOrwigsburg28$59,807$11,325
St Luke's Hospital - Carbon CampusLehighton11$94,931$11,370
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterMeadowbrook23$35,128$11,383
Excela Health - Frick HospitalMount Pleasant12$30,062$11,466
Paoli HospitalPaoli48$82,688$11,492
Lehigh Valley Hospital - HazletonHazleton24$73,231$11,508
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre27$84,422$11,527
Meadville Medical CenterMeadville12$41,308$11,528
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown52$36,139$11,711
Chester County HospitalWest Chester56$53,870$11,928
St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusStroudsburg23$139,432$12,018
Upmc JamesonNew Castle11$32,363$12,119
Excela Health Latrobe HospitalLatrobe24$20,853$12,205
Upmc WilliamsportWilliamsport41$50,909$12,454
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg62$35,027$12,479
Upmc AltoonaAltoona23$54,718$12,484
Excela Health Westmoreland Regional HospitalGreensburg16$33,664$12,531
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton66$111,007$12,581
Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg22$41,091$12,634
Forbes HospitalMonroeville19$56,937$12,650
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne62$40,234$12,716
Schuylkill Medical Center - South Jackson StreetPottsville23$75,699$12,747
Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville29$79,774$12,813
Wellspan Good Samaritan HospitalLebanon38$41,847$12,860
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster59$50,259$13,066
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg60$47,353$13,096
Geisinger-Lewistown HospitalLewistown30$53,286$13,277
Upmc MemorialYork11$42,832$13,280
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington103$52,040$13,732
St Luke's Hospital - Upper Bucks CampusQuakertown21$159,931$13,943
St Luke's Hospital - Easton CampusEaston12$58,689$13,960
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg26$78,186$13,963
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr39$95,176$13,984
Wayne Memorial HospitalHonesdale20$36,148$14,063
Upmc HanoverHanover28$42,440$14,210
Upmc LititzLititz12$53,240$14,287
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia68$46,272$14,295
Saint Vincent HospitalErie19$83,924$14,312
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre67$106,999$14,335
Robert Packer HospitalSayre35$44,531$14,351
Reading HospitalWest Reading95$55,272$14,362
Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College30$37,243$14,462
Upmc HamotErie18$120,086$14,553
Temple Health - Chestnut Hill HospitalPhiladelphia43$129,713$14,597
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood70$85,777$14,692
Wellspan York HospitalYork79$49,725$14,885
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown176$87,558$14,993
Nazareth HospitalPhiladelphia39$59,235$15,067
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem64$115,544$15,337
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown20$33,856$15,651
Penn State Health Lancaster Medical CenterLancaster25$55,667$16,090
Upmc MercyPittsburgh11$84,399$16,607
Crozer Chester Medical CenterUpland38$148,028$16,614
Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh28$65,603$17,056
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia27$118,412$17,119
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton28$65,389$17,497
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh65$164,519$17,653
Penn State Health Hampden Medical CenterEnola18$75,810$17,913
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville78$121,108$17,941
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey51$71,050$17,988
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston32$96,688$18,243
Mercy Catholic Medical Center- Mercy FitzgeraldDarby21$83,255$19,551
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia HospitalPhiladelphia44$79,170$21,471
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia73$99,062$22,872
Pennsylvania HospitalPhiladelphia11$173,749$23,328
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia49$181,297$23,396
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia49$171,358$25,302

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.