US Health Care Costs

Major Small and Large Bowel Procedures Without Cc/Mcc in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 331: Major small and large bowel procedures without cc/mcc

$84,197typical hospital bill
$15,230typical amount paid
$11,343–$20,415range paid across 23 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $84,197 for this stay in 2024, about 5.5 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
Upmc PassavantPittsburgh12$85,628$11,343
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville12$81,152$11,717
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown15$68,602$13,693
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg18$103,061$13,846
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr26$63,856$14,090
Wellspan York HospitalYork13$84,197$14,116
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington14$49,752$14,246
Reading HospitalWest Reading16$62,527$14,344
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton20$124,964$14,368
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg25$64,583$14,736
Robert Packer HospitalSayre21$60,657$15,209
West Penn HospitalPittsburgh15$74,599$15,230
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown32$135,841$15,255
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood34$86,569$15,368
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster20$45,437$16,050
Pennsylvania HospitalPhiladelphia12$92,184$16,084
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh23$158,319$16,591
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville30$140,714$17,216
Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh13$70,368$17,390
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia12$98,193$18,429
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem30$144,604$19,420
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey22$55,615$19,978
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia44$141,228$20,415

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.