US Health Care Costs

Sepsis in Virginia

MS-DRG 872: Septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours without mcc

$33,441typical hospital bill
$8,538typical amount paid
$6,331–$16,204range paid across 63 hospitals

Virginia hospitals billed Medicare a typical $33,441 for this stay in 2024, about 3.9 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
Riverside Doctors' Hospital of WilliamsburgWilliamsburg32$20,415$6,331
Riverside Walter Reed HospitalGloucester54$23,844$6,993
Sentara Martha Jefferson HospitalCharlottesville83$24,715$7,031
Fauquier HospitalWarrenton15$38,693$7,363
Chesapeake General HospitalChesapeake36$26,790$7,547
Cjw Medical CenterRichmond121$91,516$7,550
Mary Immaculate HospitalNewport News15$33,500$7,552
John Randolph Medical CenterHopewell18$71,300$7,646
Sentara Virginia Beach General HospitalVirginia Beach89$34,967$7,706
Uva Health Haymarket Medical CenterHaymarket28$37,014$7,822
Southside Community Hospital, IncFarmville26$33,693$7,934
Riverside Shore Memorial HospitalOnancock49$20,446$7,970
Sentara Princess Anne HospitalVirginia Beach142$33,625$8,055
Bon Secours St Marys HospitalRichmond88$36,514$8,090
Centra Bedford Memorial HospitalBedford42$25,100$8,100
Reston Hospital CenterReston46$67,430$8,114
Sentara Leigh HospitalNorfolk110$33,441$8,145
Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical CenterWilliamsburg85$34,062$8,169
Centra Health - Lynchburg Gen HospitalLynchburg172$31,324$8,175
Stafford Hospital, LLCStafford26$22,190$8,181
Stonesprings Hospital CenterDulles15$55,258$8,199
Spotsylvania Regional Medical CenterFredericksburg34$45,022$8,214
Bon Secours St Francis Medical CenterMidlothian97$37,305$8,345
Sentara Obici HospitalSuffolk127$33,304$8,390
Mary Washington HospitalFredericksburg115$24,253$8,399
Winchester Medical CenterWinchester18$27,406$8,408
Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical CenterMechanicsville96$37,564$8,419
Inova Fair Oaks HospitalFairfax69$26,412$8,464
Sentara Halifax Regional HospitalSouth Boston27$24,073$8,510
Virginia Hospital CenterArlington105$24,650$8,520
Russell County HospitalLebanon12$28,849$8,523
Inova Loudoun HospitalLeesburg69$28,127$8,538
Augusta HealthFishersville49$23,569$8,551
Riverside Regional Medical CenterNewport News86$26,558$8,626
Bon Secours Southside Medical CenterPetersburg38$89,410$8,630
Henrico Doctors' HospitalRichmond48$89,893$8,723
Uva Health Culpeper Medical CenterCulpeper43$25,525$8,761
Sentara Careplex HospitalHampton50$30,848$8,878
Uva Health Prince William Medical CenterManassas26$30,913$8,974
Bon Secours Maryview Medical CenterPortsmouth41$27,817$8,996
Inova Alexandria HospitalAlexandria42$23,473$9,030
Sentara Rmh Medical CenterHarrisonburg94$21,304$9,036
Lewisgale Hospital AlleghanyLow Moor16$40,935$9,039
Sovah Health DanvilleDanville63$54,728$9,057
Sentara Northern Virginia Medical CenterWoodbridge64$34,357$9,077
Carilion Franklin Memorial HospitalRocky Mount19$34,046$9,096
Wythe County Community HospitalWytheville22$59,576$9,217
Community Memorial HospitalSouth Hill38$37,692$9,303
Carilion New River Valley Medical CenterChristiansburg53$33,163$9,345
Bon Secours Southampton Memorial HospitalFranklin16$28,497$9,415
Smyth County Community HospitalMarion11$22,636$9,461
Lewisgale Medical CenterSalem86$60,630$9,547
Carilion Medical CenterRoanoke107$41,851$9,694
Vcu Health Tappahannock HospitalTappahannock16$25,604$9,752
Lewisgale Hospital MontgomeryBlacksburg44$34,373$10,023
Johnston Memorial HospitalAbingdon28$32,415$10,044
Clinch Valley Medical CenterRichlands16$52,810$10,175
Inova Mount Vernon HospitalAlexandria45$33,641$10,499
Inova Fairfax HospitalFalls Church164$26,910$11,227
Sentara Norfolk General HospitalNorfolk79$39,490$11,972
Lonesome Pine HospitalBig Stone Gap19$26,126$12,902
Medical College of Virginia HospitalsRichmond65$52,016$15,943
University of Virginia Medical CenterCharlottesville60$46,420$16,204

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.