US Health Care Costs

Respiratory failure in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 189: Pulmonary edema and respiratory failure

$52,304typical hospital bill
$10,234typical amount paid
$7,976–$22,112range paid across 98 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $52,304 for this stay in 2024, about 5.1 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
Canonsburg General HospitalCanonsburg12$36,033$7,976
St Clair HospitalPittsburgh28$23,759$8,161
Jefferson HospitalJefferson Hills35$43,072$8,167
Wellspan Evangelical Community HospitalLewisburg13$55,475$8,361
Jefferson Lansdale HospitalLansdale15$36,823$8,381
Upmc EastMonroeville19$61,175$8,436
Upmc JamesonNew Castle14$27,445$8,472
Upmc CarlisleCarlisle24$55,231$8,548
Upmc HorizonGreenville15$48,100$8,558
Lehigh Valley Hospital - HazletonHazleton30$52,623$8,607
Pottstown HospitalPottstown20$58,863$8,620
Paoli HospitalPaoli42$84,436$8,684
Excela Health Westmoreland Regional HospitalGreensburg23$35,281$8,687
Upmc NorthwestSeneca23$32,789$8,692
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville29$42,910$8,706
Heritage Valley SewickleySewickley11$19,732$8,774
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown20$35,012$8,869
Allegheny Valley HospitalNatrona33$34,556$8,894
Wellspan Ephrata Community HospitalEphrata14$41,578$8,904
Penn Highlands DuboisDubois39$22,279$8,970
Independence Health System Butler Memorial HospitaButler15$27,489$9,018
Chester County HospitalWest Chester62$50,873$9,145
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre76$67,919$9,206
Upmc WilliamsportWilliamsport34$51,642$9,226
The Washington HospitalWashington16$13,514$9,341
Excela Health - Frick HospitalMount Pleasant11$26,946$9,374
Regional Hospital of ScrantonScranton26$81,763$9,376
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterMeadowbrook25$35,453$9,426
Upmc SomersetSomerset14$16,682$9,447
Ahn Wexford HospitalWexford36$32,803$9,500
Uniontown HospitalUniontown30$23,265$9,609
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr54$77,803$9,637
Geisinger St. Luke's HospitalOrwigsburg32$57,724$9,641
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia40$64,051$9,684
Upmc AltoonaAltoona22$38,432$9,712
Forbes HospitalMonroeville28$51,674$9,732
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton113$97,935$9,757
Schuylkill Medical Center - South Jackson StreetPottsville22$56,092$9,850
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg96$34,598$9,883
St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusStroudsburg57$72,204$9,944
Heritage Valley BeaverBeaver20$13,930$9,974
Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg24$43,710$10,066
Upmc PassavantPittsburgh25$67,063$10,089
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington54$40,975$10,112
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster141$39,635$10,179
Wellspan Good Samaritan HospitalLebanon20$41,752$10,180
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne41$34,773$10,204
Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville37$65,018$10,221
Geisinger-Lewistown HospitalLewistown38$53,329$10,223
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill42$56,234$10,245
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg20$65,109$10,410
Wayne Memorial HospitalHonesdale22$35,783$10,544
Penn State Health St. JosephReading37$51,639$10,609
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg41$57,822$10,626
St Luke's Hospital - Carbon CampusLehighton39$72,705$10,796
Geisinger-Bloomsburg HospitalBloomsburg23$48,142$10,841
Upmc St MargaretPittsburgh27$51,986$10,903
Wellspan York HospitalYork53$46,324$10,920
St Luke's Hospital - Upper Bucks CampusQuakertown42$96,343$10,943
Saint Vincent HospitalErie25$64,516$11,005
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia88$38,304$11,085
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre128$101,285$11,097
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown193$77,775$11,185
Upmc HamotErie65$87,449$11,255
Penn State Health Hampden Medical CenterEnola26$43,375$11,255
Upmc McKeesport HospitalMc Keesport12$38,109$11,273
Warren General HospitalWarren29$20,270$11,277
St Luke's Miners Memorial HospitalCoaldale36$51,664$11,278
Reading HospitalWest Reading86$54,241$11,363
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood47$85,635$11,456
Robert Packer HospitalSayre65$39,563$11,458
Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College42$43,251$11,481
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown20$30,184$11,756
Penn State Health Lancaster Medical CenterLancaster48$50,975$11,788
St Luke's Hospital - Easton CampusEaston15$64,071$11,825
Upmc MemorialYork36$55,406$11,847
Upmc HanoverHanover44$67,729$11,919
Suburban Community HospitalNorristown13$61,016$11,942
Wellspan Waynesboro HospitalWaynesboro30$35,102$11,985
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton74$41,116$12,045
Roxborough Memorial HospitalPhiladelphia18$66,963$12,139
Crozer Chester Medical CenterUpland54$98,231$12,176
Upmc MercyPittsburgh12$62,004$12,224
Temple Health - Chestnut Hill HospitalPhiladelphia56$137,225$12,375
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem89$85,190$12,589
Nazareth HospitalPhiladelphia38$49,661$13,139
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh64$157,287$13,336
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia20$106,038$13,635
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville130$104,717$13,665
Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh44$64,063$13,732
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey103$61,665$13,942
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston64$79,824$14,240
Pennsylvania HospitalPhiladelphia14$100,530$14,627
Mercy Catholic Medical Center- Mercy FitzgeraldDarby35$55,077$15,587
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia77$127,947$15,876
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia67$65,685$16,083
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia HospitalPhiladelphia26$56,941$16,490
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia76$202,925$22,112

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.