US Health Care Costs

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Without C.d.e. with Mcc in New York

MS-DRG 417: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy without c.d.e. with mcc

$143,971typical hospital bill
$24,562typical amount paid
$21,581–$37,522range paid across 11 hospitals

New York hospitals billed Medicare a typical $143,971 for this stay in 2024, about 5.9 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
John T Mather Memorial Hospital of Port JeffersonPort Jefferson11$143,971$21,581
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical CenterWest Islip17$105,960$21,788
Staten Island University HospitalStaten Island11$143,750$23,036
Ns/Lij Hs Southside HospitalBay Shore12$143,910$23,039
Mount Sinai South NassauOceanside11$162,399$24,008
St Francis Hospital - the Heart CenterRoslyn14$183,500$24,562
Albany Medical Center HospitalAlbany13$61,360$25,188
Nyu Langone HospitalsNew York44$227,110$31,310
Suny/Stony Brook University HospitalStony Brook23$170,836$31,397
Vassar Brothers Medical CenterPoughkeepsie11$83,970$34,669
New York-Presbyterian HospitalNew York33$218,677$37,522

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.