US Health Care Costs

Permanent Cardiac Pacemaker Implant with Cc in Ohio

MS-DRG 243: Permanent cardiac pacemaker implant with cc

$78,747typical hospital bill
$17,919typical amount paid
$14,518–$24,188range paid across 28 hospitals

Ohio hospitals billed Medicare a typical $78,747 for this stay in 2024, about 4.4 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
Mercy Medical CenterCanton23$82,224$14,518
Parma Community General HospitalParma12$74,196$14,916
University Hospitals - Elyria Medical CenterElyria16$61,063$15,152
West Chester HospitalWest Chester12$68,077$15,364
Bethesda NorthCincinnati21$60,887$16,246
Lima Memorial Health SystemLima14$62,395$16,702
Christ HospitalCincinnati19$64,441$16,778
Kettering Health Main CampusKettering32$74,157$17,129
Mount Carmel East & WestColumbus15$75,014$17,427
Fairview HospitalCleveland25$66,527$17,452
Hillcrest HospitalMayfield Heights22$73,610$17,454
Mh St Elizabeth Youngstown HospitalYoungstown24$112,071$17,518
Ohiohealth Mansfield HospitalMansfield15$67,760$17,835
Miami Valley HospitalDayton26$101,880$17,862
Fairfield Medical CenterLancaster18$68,598$17,976
Promedica Toledo HospitalToledo30$80,487$18,408
Summa Health SystemAkron14$122,897$18,529
Riverside Methodist HospitalColumbus24$98,945$18,731
Mercy Health St Ritas Medical CenterLima17$115,130$18,954
Aultman HospitalCanton16$75,249$19,037
Southern Ohio Medical CenterPortsmouth24$77,007$19,801
Mercy Health-Anderson HospitalCincinnati23$81,817$19,846
Mercy St Vincent Medical CenterToledo21$148,592$20,585
Ohio State University State Health SystemColumbus36$90,658$21,031
Genesis HospitalZanesville19$95,565$21,815
Uh Cleveland Medical CenterCleveland13$82,574$23,145
Cleveland ClinicCleveland44$94,926$23,702
Akron General Medical CenterAkron17$109,858$24,188

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.