US Health Care Costs

Pulmonary Embolism with Mcc or Acute Cor Pulmonale in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 175: Pulmonary embolism with mcc or acute cor pulmonale

$61,614typical hospital bill
$12,604typical amount paid
$9,273–$20,309range paid across 43 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $61,614 for this stay in 2024, about 4.9 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
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill15$62,070$9,273
Chester County HospitalWest Chester31$48,469$9,501
Uniontown HospitalUniontown13$28,211$9,642
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville11$46,595$9,703
Paoli HospitalPaoli33$84,685$9,869
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown18$43,532$9,885
Ahn Wexford HospitalWexford11$46,142$10,438
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg19$32,479$10,694
Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville13$61,614$10,769
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg17$64,228$10,862
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia12$80,439$11,350
Upmc HanoverHanover16$58,053$11,480
Penn State Health St. JosephReading12$49,797$11,496
Reading HospitalWest Reading36$52,893$11,602
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne24$49,939$11,677
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr22$73,369$11,822
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster38$44,093$11,902
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia24$44,973$11,928
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton20$106,572$12,149
St Luke's Hospital - Carbon CampusLehighton11$159,054$12,437
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington38$54,267$12,604
Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg12$43,754$12,604
St Luke's Hospital - Upper Bucks CampusQuakertown12$117,358$12,643
Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College17$44,651$12,720
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown83$92,227$12,794
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood28$83,872$12,883
Upmc HamotErie19$85,196$12,895
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg30$59,606$13,033
Wellspan York HospitalYork29$56,620$13,126
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown13$41,293$13,463
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton19$68,312$13,533
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem32$110,784$13,725
Nazareth HospitalPhiladelphia13$45,156$14,263
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville26$95,886$14,532
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre23$128,852$14,611
Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh20$58,646$14,757
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey14$52,035$14,968
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh31$175,831$15,436
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia14$66,062$15,795
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia16$152,035$15,884
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia17$167,906$17,937
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston17$118,724$18,496
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia35$160,990$20,309

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.