US Health Care Costs

Lung infection, with major complications in Virginia

MS-DRG 177: Respiratory infections and inflammations with mcc

$43,625typical hospital bill
$12,714typical amount paid
$10,355–$28,028range paid across 61 hospitals

Virginia hospitals billed Medicare a typical $43,625 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
Riverside Doctors' Hospital of WilliamsburgWilliamsburg19$37,776$10,355
Sentara Martha Jefferson HospitalCharlottesville77$28,410$10,356
Uva Health Haymarket Medical CenterHaymarket30$39,873$10,942
Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical CenterWilliamsburg56$37,876$11,202
Sentara Obici HospitalSuffolk64$46,093$11,322
John Randolph Medical CenterHopewell27$104,140$11,418
Fauquier HospitalWarrenton22$78,654$11,443
Chesapeake General HospitalChesapeake103$31,081$11,553
Mary Immaculate HospitalNewport News19$42,331$11,702
Sentara Virginia Beach General HospitalVirginia Beach114$44,928$11,782
Sentara Princess Anne HospitalVirginia Beach80$45,169$11,876
Riverside Shore Memorial HospitalOnancock20$30,758$11,918
Stafford Hospital, LLCStafford30$27,865$11,921
Cjw Medical CenterRichmond155$113,738$11,957
Clinch Valley Medical CenterRichlands13$59,898$12,023
Reston Hospital CenterReston64$70,434$12,113
Bon Secours St Marys HospitalRichmond74$45,084$12,127
Henrico Doctors' HospitalRichmond116$93,669$12,349
Bon Secours Southside Medical CenterPetersburg49$129,673$12,373
Sentara Careplex HospitalHampton30$43,203$12,441
Spotsylvania Regional Medical CenterFredericksburg22$52,431$12,451
Southside Community Hospital, IncFarmville24$46,182$12,458
Bon Secours St Francis Medical CenterMidlothian59$38,703$12,458
Sovah Health DanvilleDanville63$67,554$12,475
Mary Washington HospitalFredericksburg203$28,254$12,476
Sentara Leigh HospitalNorfolk100$42,028$12,492
Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical CenterMechanicsville77$49,298$12,520
Centra Health - Lynchburg Gen HospitalLynchburg91$38,282$12,571
Augusta HealthFishersville45$37,054$12,687
Riverside Regional Medical CenterNewport News107$35,769$12,700
Carilion New River Valley Medical CenterChristiansburg52$43,885$12,714
Uva Health Prince William Medical CenterManassas39$36,293$12,810
Sentara Halifax Regional HospitalSouth Boston35$38,347$12,816
Virginia Hospital CenterArlington68$39,344$12,878
Centra Bedford Memorial HospitalBedford15$45,479$12,957
Inova Loudoun HospitalLeesburg164$39,451$13,030
Sentara Northern Virginia Medical CenterWoodbridge77$42,944$13,137
Community Memorial HospitalSouth Hill24$43,924$13,262
Inova Alexandria HospitalAlexandria109$43,625$13,303
Winchester Medical CenterWinchester181$28,381$13,498
Carilion Franklin Memorial HospitalRocky Mount57$38,346$13,727
Smyth County Community HospitalMarion17$46,861$13,791
Inova Mount Vernon HospitalAlexandria59$41,908$13,817
Russell County HospitalLebanon12$45,257$13,873
Lewisgale Hospital AlleghanyLow Moor20$61,091$13,974
Twin County Regional HospitalGalax30$73,252$14,011
Johnston Memorial HospitalAbingdon44$50,855$14,052
Lewisgale Medical CenterSalem63$77,101$14,141
Inova Fair Oaks HospitalFairfax67$38,104$14,150
Uva Health Culpeper Medical CenterCulpeper45$35,185$14,247
Carilion Medical CenterRoanoke125$46,624$14,329
Warren Memorial HospitalFront Royal32$20,294$14,347
Bon Secours Maryview Medical CenterPortsmouth37$39,215$14,570
Sentara Rmh Medical CenterHarrisonburg105$26,835$14,652
Vcu Health Tappahannock HospitalTappahannock32$36,917$15,125
Lewisgale Hospital MontgomeryBlacksburg31$46,920$15,897
Lonesome Pine HospitalBig Stone Gap20$33,034$16,797
Sentara Norfolk General HospitalNorfolk51$62,365$17,124
Inova Fairfax HospitalFalls Church193$44,606$17,578
Medical College of Virginia HospitalsRichmond76$78,724$24,732
University of Virginia Medical CenterCharlottesville98$88,545$28,028

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.