US Health Care Costs

Urinary tract infection in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 690: Kidney and urinary tract infections without mcc

$31,021typical hospital bill
$6,711typical amount paid
$5,008–$11,449range paid across 100 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $31,021 for this stay in 2024, about 4.6 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
Canonsburg General HospitalCanonsburg14$22,867$5,008
Allegheny Valley HospitalNatrona12$24,496$5,321
Jefferson Lansdale HospitalLansdale65$23,462$5,408
Upmc PassavantPittsburgh46$42,693$5,449
Jefferson HospitalJefferson Hills26$29,290$5,538
Heritage Valley SewickleySewickley18$12,106$5,595
Upmc CarlisleCarlisle15$21,683$5,625
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown58$17,565$5,634
Wellspan Evangelical Community HospitalLewisburg47$44,547$5,636
Geisinger St. Luke's HospitalOrwigsburg22$34,099$5,637
St Clair HospitalPittsburgh15$15,325$5,697
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia44$57,102$5,697
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville65$27,495$5,698
Lehigh Valley Hospital - HazletonHazleton32$33,965$5,725
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill59$36,713$5,748
Paoli HospitalPaoli89$48,368$5,768
Ahn Wexford HospitalWexford21$25,169$5,777
Excela Health Westmoreland Regional HospitalGreensburg29$14,839$5,781
Upmc NorthwestSeneca31$19,464$5,790
Pottstown HospitalPottstown45$45,648$5,844
Penn Highlands Mon ValleyMonongahela23$15,871$5,887
Upmc JamesonNew Castle19$17,986$5,945
Uniontown HospitalUniontown38$15,346$5,955
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterMeadowbrook57$23,447$5,989
Independence Health System Butler Memorial HospitaButler15$20,541$6,004
Chester County HospitalWest Chester107$32,289$6,013
Forbes HospitalMonroeville33$27,226$6,068
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre69$38,916$6,082
Wellspan Ephrata Community HospitalEphrata13$40,633$6,084
Regional Hospital of ScrantonScranton28$33,872$6,087
Penn Highlands DuboisDubois26$13,980$6,140
Upmc MemorialYork21$28,764$6,146
St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusStroudsburg46$63,563$6,188
Meadville Medical CenterMeadville38$20,274$6,190
Upmc WilliamsportWilliamsport32$32,659$6,208
Upmc AltoonaAltoona52$23,844$6,215
The Washington HospitalWashington40$11,725$6,386
Upmc HorizonGreenville23$28,649$6,390
Schuylkill Medical Center - South Jackson StreetPottsville21$33,785$6,417
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton54$54,677$6,421
St Luke's Hospital - Carbon CampusLehighton19$57,934$6,443
Upmc St MargaretPittsburgh29$41,134$6,516
Indiana Regional Medical CenterIndiana20$19,956$6,550
Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville45$39,974$6,550
Wellspan Good Samaritan HospitalLebanon21$22,937$6,562
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster114$27,215$6,568
Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg47$25,170$6,583
Acmh HospitalKittanning25$18,108$6,603
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne138$25,422$6,644
Geisinger-Lewistown HospitalLewistown22$28,277$6,698
Upmc HanoverHanover61$26,476$6,725
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr76$46,702$6,738
Excela Health Latrobe HospitalLatrobe17$12,943$6,762
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg42$44,689$6,774
Penn State Health St. JosephReading47$26,735$6,859
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg67$22,461$6,939
Upmc EastMonroeville42$49,017$6,952
Heritage Valley BeaverBeaver22$13,191$6,963
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre62$60,026$6,971
Upmc Bedford MemorialEverett20$16,722$6,981
Wayne Memorial HospitalHonesdale31$31,277$7,021
Saint Vincent HospitalErie25$30,642$7,042
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg90$31,732$7,091
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington157$29,015$7,110
West Penn HospitalPittsburgh12$34,366$7,179
Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College60$22,707$7,185
St Luke's Hospital - Upper Bucks CampusQuakertown43$69,258$7,198
Reading HospitalWest Reading147$33,534$7,211
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia56$24,575$7,241
Upmc KaneKane11$12,500$7,313
Geisinger-Bloomsburg HospitalBloomsburg13$30,765$7,370
St Luke's Miners Memorial HospitalCoaldale21$43,280$7,398
Wellspan York HospitalYork73$28,183$7,467
Upmc HamotErie40$50,647$7,494
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood64$54,720$7,541
Robert Packer HospitalSayre55$26,388$7,720
Lehigh Valley Hospital - Dickson CityDickson City26$36,163$7,740
Upmc McKeesport HospitalMc Keesport15$36,527$7,778
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown164$46,135$7,783
Crozer Chester Medical CenterUpland20$62,534$7,788
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown27$21,543$7,828
Nazareth HospitalPhiladelphia24$27,052$7,856
Wellspan Waynesboro HospitalWaynesboro19$19,934$7,893
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton38$29,471$7,957
Temple Health - Chestnut Hill HospitalPhiladelphia40$84,201$8,045
Penn State Health Lancaster Medical CenterLancaster31$29,357$8,139
Pennsylvania HospitalPhiladelphia31$60,764$8,302
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem69$61,656$8,329
Upmc MercyPittsburgh38$44,900$8,559
Penn State Health Hampden Medical CenterEnola34$31,874$8,957
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville58$60,045$9,010
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia23$58,823$9,064
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey54$40,643$9,231
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia37$31,857$9,424
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh59$90,135$9,492
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston57$56,113$9,522
Mercy Catholic Medical Center- Mercy FitzgeraldDarby24$34,986$10,647
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia50$85,151$11,229
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia HospitalPhiladelphia14$33,701$11,339
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia47$81,233$11,449

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.