US Health Care Costs

Stroke, with complications or clot-busting drug in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 065: Intracranial hemorrhage or cerebral infarction with cc or tpa in 24 hours

$48,225typical hospital bill
$8,617typical amount paid
$6,338–$16,809range paid across 87 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $48,225 for this stay in 2024, about 5.6 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
Jefferson HospitalJefferson Hills16$47,664$6,338
St Clair HospitalPittsburgh21$22,005$6,554
Heritage Valley SewickleySewickley24$15,458$6,656
Upmc CarlisleCarlisle22$39,297$6,785
Upmc PassavantPittsburgh17$57,324$6,834
The Washington HospitalWashington20$18,571$6,839
Wellspan Evangelical Community HospitalLewisburg27$49,412$6,860
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill28$36,567$6,894
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown53$30,208$6,983
Upmc MemorialYork19$48,225$7,089
Upmc NorthwestSeneca15$34,521$7,107
Jefferson Lansdale HospitalLansdale27$33,619$7,137
Excela Health Westmoreland Regional HospitalGreensburg27$20,618$7,163
Pottstown HospitalPottstown16$71,076$7,194
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia66$66,269$7,210
Upmc JamesonNew Castle16$19,204$7,301
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre36$48,036$7,400
Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville23$53,219$7,404
Uniontown HospitalUniontown23$18,226$7,412
Penn Highlands DuboisDubois26$24,681$7,416
Paoli HospitalPaoli84$71,297$7,419
St Luke's Hospital - Carbon CampusLehighton16$74,668$7,509
Chester County HospitalWest Chester77$50,454$7,521
Heritage Valley BeaverBeaver23$15,629$7,567
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterMeadowbrook33$30,498$7,586
Lehigh Valley Hospital - HazletonHazleton17$52,557$7,652
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville45$39,888$7,679
Regional Hospital of ScrantonScranton41$56,081$7,709
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg27$56,858$7,776
Geisinger St. Luke's HospitalOrwigsburg15$50,130$7,798
Ahn Wexford HospitalWexford12$34,742$7,829
Meadville Medical CenterMeadville25$24,771$7,873
Upmc AltoonaAltoona49$38,175$7,897
Indiana Regional Medical CenterIndiana18$27,542$7,938
Independence Health System Butler Memorial HospitaButler21$29,751$8,002
Schuylkill Medical Center - South Jackson StreetPottsville14$39,867$8,018
St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusStroudsburg21$82,918$8,030
Wellspan Good Samaritan HospitalLebanon22$31,356$8,036
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg39$32,661$8,221
Geisinger-Lewistown HospitalLewistown15$42,514$8,230
Forbes HospitalMonroeville21$40,327$8,303
Upmc WilliamsportWilliamsport26$42,233$8,304
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne67$34,230$8,555
Wellspan Ephrata Community HospitalEphrata16$42,420$8,617
Wayne Memorial HospitalHonesdale25$37,085$8,633
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster87$36,295$8,671
Penn State Health St. JosephReading25$55,648$8,705
Saint Vincent HospitalErie30$49,296$8,742
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr67$70,607$8,786
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton57$77,275$8,828
St Luke's Hospital - Upper Bucks CampusQuakertown18$82,393$8,885
Upmc HanoverHanover41$38,901$8,956
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia55$35,947$9,016
Upmc LititzLititz12$38,001$9,025
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington117$43,745$9,081
Robert Packer HospitalSayre37$40,160$9,090
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre63$84,208$9,144
Upmc HamotErie61$81,267$9,154
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg82$48,753$9,182
Temple Health - Chestnut Hill HospitalPhiladelphia24$116,464$9,266
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown169$71,525$9,386
Reading HospitalWest Reading74$55,226$9,418
Upmc EastMonroeville13$56,503$9,426
Crozer Chester Medical CenterUpland23$78,197$9,447
Wellspan York HospitalYork81$51,219$9,451
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood34$81,878$9,611
Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College34$35,953$9,633
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown18$26,824$9,743
Roxborough Memorial HospitalPhiladelphia12$49,390$9,808
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem72$95,831$10,154
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton48$48,517$10,162
Pennsylvania HospitalPhiladelphia13$132,135$10,299
Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg22$34,495$10,356
Upmc MercyPittsburgh43$72,008$10,372
Nazareth HospitalPhiladelphia16$42,472$10,862
Penn State Health Lancaster Medical CenterLancaster22$44,240$11,014
Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh66$51,575$11,319
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia15$100,234$11,406
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh47$150,231$11,414
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville50$84,638$11,488
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston43$83,264$11,561
Penn State Health Hampden Medical CenterEnola11$32,983$12,041
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey41$51,203$13,111
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia96$74,780$13,309
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia HospitalPhiladelphia38$53,809$13,457
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia64$125,958$14,174
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia39$145,391$16,809

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.