US Health Care Costs

Stroke, with major complications in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 064: Intracranial hemorrhage or cerebral infarction with mcc

$82,137typical hospital bill
$16,195typical amount paid
$11,538–$31,845range paid across 62 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $82,137 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
Excela Health Westmoreland Regional HospitalGreensburg11$21,089$11,538
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia28$85,810$12,627
Upmc CarlisleCarlisle12$38,180$12,723
Geisinger St. Luke's HospitalOrwigsburg12$77,978$12,739
St Clair HospitalPittsburgh14$25,641$13,057
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill28$58,834$13,209
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre35$83,848$13,410
Wellspan Ephrata Community HospitalEphrata15$50,200$13,416
Paoli HospitalPaoli62$105,198$13,448
Chester County HospitalWest Chester23$67,810$13,463
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown40$45,796$13,630
Upmc WilliamsportWilliamsport27$57,983$14,065
Pottstown HospitalPottstown11$99,693$14,084
Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville13$53,713$14,390
Penn State Health St. JosephReading14$69,237$14,602
The Washington HospitalWashington11$25,712$14,710
Temple Health - Chestnut Hill HospitalPhiladelphia14$111,539$14,846
Penn Highlands DuboisDubois18$45,516$14,856
Forbes HospitalMonroeville24$56,325$14,896
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville26$63,830$15,134
Upmc AltoonaAltoona46$67,907$15,273
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg13$117,675$15,408
Wellspan Good Samaritan HospitalLebanon32$45,499$15,415
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster72$56,828$15,418
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr56$98,420$15,421
St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusStroudsburg17$124,013$15,711
Regional Hospital of ScrantonScranton22$101,651$15,889
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne52$45,253$15,961
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton42$157,062$16,076
St Luke's Hospital - Upper Bucks CampusQuakertown12$91,830$16,111
Penn State Health Lancaster Medical CenterLancaster12$50,491$16,137
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington108$68,101$16,253
Upmc HanoverHanover12$52,457$16,349
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia53$59,697$16,416
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg63$77,212$16,483
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg34$54,160$16,786
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood41$123,399$17,401
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown141$144,592$17,504
Reading HospitalWest Reading70$80,426$17,524
Upmc HamotErie43$140,934$17,669
Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College17$47,456$17,723
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre50$185,384$18,321
Upmc MercyPittsburgh61$101,361$18,518
Saint Vincent HospitalErie28$108,858$18,643
Robert Packer HospitalSayre28$53,943$18,665
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown15$52,539$18,793
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton29$76,905$18,999
Wellspan York HospitalYork77$90,421$19,373
Nazareth HospitalPhiladelphia20$58,704$19,800
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem89$211,199$19,878
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston30$141,866$19,938
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh75$199,632$20,594
Crozer Chester Medical CenterUpland34$179,710$21,295
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville45$143,738$21,592
Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh78$116,741$22,995
Mercy Catholic Medical Center- Mercy FitzgeraldDarby11$87,722$23,098
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia23$175,744$23,178
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia42$251,296$24,691
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia HospitalPhiladelphia33$95,732$25,631
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey60$106,446$26,365
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia85$142,348$26,983
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia69$272,781$31,845

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.