US Health Care Costs

Lower Extremity and Humerus Procedures Except Hip, Foot and Femur with Cc in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 493: Lower extremity and humerus procedures except hip, foot and femur with cc

$115,212typical hospital bill
$20,752typical amount paid
$16,619–$30,445range paid across 26 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $115,212 for this stay in 2024, about 5.6 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
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown12$70,097$16,619
Paoli HospitalPaoli21$97,834$17,073
Chester County HospitalWest Chester15$74,818$17,163
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr11$95,509$17,960
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster26$73,814$18,168
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg14$65,949$18,503
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne24$77,751$18,869
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton22$223,288$19,326
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg18$88,790$19,653
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington29$73,100$19,695
Wellspan York HospitalYork15$153,185$19,945
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia16$101,972$20,472
Upmc HamotErie16$127,729$20,732
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood21$105,299$20,772
Upmc MercyPittsburgh20$145,171$21,454
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown66$150,197$21,640
Robert Packer HospitalSayre12$101,739$21,750
Reading HospitalWest Reading27$79,628$22,566
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston22$173,633$23,808
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville14$214,462$23,891
Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh26$130,044$24,489
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia13$158,775$24,903
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh30$220,896$25,901
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia18$125,126$26,989
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey20$194,911$28,176
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem13$175,931$30,445

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.