US Health Care Costs

Medical Back Problems with Mcc in New York

MS-DRG 551: Medical back problems with mcc

$99,134typical hospital bill
$19,203typical amount paid
$13,217–$34,439range paid across 30 hospitals

New York hospitals billed Medicare a typical $99,134 for this stay in 2024, about 5.2 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
St Catherine of Siena HospitalSmithtown20$82,848$13,217
Peconic Bay Medical CenterRiverhead14$100,349$14,199
St Francis Hospital - the Heart CenterRoslyn11$88,421$14,478
Crouse HospitalSyracuse12$24,517$14,726
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical CenterWest Islip13$86,021$14,935
White Plains Hospital CenterWhite Plains23$89,394$15,047
Long Island Community HospitalPatchogue20$113,601$15,250
Ns/Lij Hs Huntington HospitalHuntington35$80,601$15,332
Ns/Lij Hs Southside HospitalBay Shore23$107,040$15,674
John T Mather Memorial Hospital of Port JeffersonPort Jefferson13$87,422$17,084
Plainview HospitalPlainview12$93,442$17,509
Staten Island University HospitalStaten Island22$66,978$18,345
Vassar Brothers Medical CenterPoughkeepsie19$41,763$18,584
Mount Sinai South NassauOceanside21$196,713$18,693
Albany Medical Center HospitalAlbany33$58,211$19,111
Lenox Hill HospitalNew York20$97,887$19,295
University Hospital S U N Y Health Science CenterSyracuse15$129,055$19,314
New York-Presbyterian/QueensFlushing24$99,599$19,352
North Shore University HospitalManhasset54$133,212$20,868
Long Island Jewish Medical CenterNew Hyde Park38$110,373$21,077
Suny/Stony Brook University HospitalStony Brook43$117,265$21,903
Strong Memorial HospitalRochester19$41,507$22,558
Mount Sinai Beth IsraelNew York12$165,749$22,708
Maimonides Medical CenterBrooklyn16$72,956$23,257
Nyu Langone HospitalsNew York80$151,109$23,930
Mount Sinai WestNew York42$138,751$24,268
Mount Sinai HospitalNew York19$98,668$24,392
New York-Presbyterian HospitalNew York72$136,823$25,797
Westchester Medical CenterValhalla20$271,661$30,102
Montefiore Medical CenterBronx11$265,885$34,439

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.