US Health Care Costs

Urinary tract infection, with major complications in Pennsylvania

MS-DRG 689: Kidney and urinary tract infections with mcc

$43,004typical hospital bill
$9,086typical amount paid
$7,052–$15,925range paid across 88 hospitals

Pennsylvania hospitals billed Medicare a typical $43,004 for this stay in 2024, about 4.7 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 Hills11$40,950$7,052
St Clair HospitalPittsburgh16$17,063$7,253
Heritage Valley SewickleySewickley11$16,482$7,468
Upmc PassavantPittsburgh23$63,347$7,593
Wellspan Evangelical Community HospitalLewisburg43$46,557$7,714
Geisinger St. Luke's HospitalOrwigsburg22$37,047$7,770
Jefferson Lansdale HospitalLansdale34$29,319$7,813
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterCamp Hill29$43,307$7,817
Upmc MemorialYork15$34,649$7,932
Upmc EastMonroeville15$53,371$7,946
Heritage Valley BeaverBeaver12$13,823$7,955
Upmc CarlisleCarlisle25$39,207$8,013
Ahn Wexford HospitalWexford18$29,035$8,089
Paoli HospitalPaoli103$69,704$8,104
Lehigh Valley Hospital - HazletonHazleton32$45,045$8,132
Uniontown HospitalUniontown20$19,992$8,219
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown39$23,740$8,245
Penn Highlands DuboisDubois18$18,925$8,247
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville56$41,542$8,248
Excela Health Westmoreland Regional HospitalGreensburg22$17,240$8,275
Upmc NorthwestSeneca12$28,341$8,278
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia47$75,770$8,315
Independence Health System Butler Memorial HospitaButler13$29,175$8,343
Pottstown HospitalPottstown34$56,424$8,354
Indiana Regional Medical CenterIndiana17$28,039$8,453
Lehigh Valley Hospital - Dickson CityDickson City15$38,549$8,475
Upmc JamesonNew Castle11$17,385$8,499
Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre65$51,331$8,535
Chester County HospitalWest Chester80$42,943$8,567
St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusStroudsburg23$69,420$8,582
Wellspan Ephrata Community HospitalEphrata12$50,649$8,591
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical CenterMeadowbrook44$27,431$8,631
Excela Health Latrobe HospitalLatrobe14$15,757$8,699
Bryn Mawr HospitalBryn Mawr50$55,997$8,778
Regional Hospital of ScrantonScranton36$56,444$8,813
St Luke's Hospital - Carbon CampusLehighton20$73,674$8,866
Upmc WilliamsportWilliamsport24$51,973$8,867
Upmc AltoonaAltoona28$42,749$8,917
Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg19$28,990$8,931
Forbes HospitalMonroeville25$39,671$8,964
Schuylkill Medical Center - South Jackson StreetPottsville27$39,836$8,991
Lancaster General HospitalLancaster110$31,093$9,005
Wellspan Good Samaritan HospitalLebanon17$28,608$9,028
Meadville Medical CenterMeadville24$24,335$9,069
Lehigh Valley Hospital - PoconoEast Stroudsburg17$56,856$9,104
Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville33$50,985$9,230
The Washington HospitalWashington16$13,762$9,260
Wellspan Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg79$28,068$9,275
St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne82$30,104$9,366
Geisinger-Lewistown HospitalLewistown16$37,301$9,395
Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton58$74,199$9,608
Upmc HanoverHanover20$34,722$9,617
Upmc Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg61$45,160$9,705
Penn State Health St. JosephReading26$45,644$9,932
Wayne Memorial HospitalHonesdale18$39,151$9,965
St Luke's Hospital - Upper Bucks CampusQuakertown36$85,073$9,975
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre64$81,991$9,982
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown103$62,414$10,012
Wellspan Waynesboro HospitalWaynesboro25$27,985$10,056
Jefferson Abington HospitalAbington93$45,590$10,092
Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia45$39,218$10,242
Saint Vincent HospitalErie28$43,066$10,252
Reading HospitalWest Reading115$46,953$10,252
Upmc HamotErie21$72,200$10,280
Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College63$33,519$10,648
Wellspan York HospitalYork74$36,725$10,773
Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood49$72,096$10,900
Robert Packer HospitalSayre36$41,303$11,040
Conemaugh Memorial Medical CenterJohnstown33$26,778$11,294
Temple Health - Chestnut Hill HospitalPhiladelphia56$119,533$11,363
St Lukes HospitalBethlehem72$84,402$11,425
Crozer Chester Medical CenterUpland32$95,468$11,440
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton17$42,176$11,514
Nazareth HospitalPhiladelphia29$36,558$11,538
Penn State Health Lancaster Medical CenterLancaster20$49,125$11,739
Pennsylvania HospitalPhiladelphia12$90,249$12,107
Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia20$73,191$12,238
Upmc MercyPittsburgh13$73,488$12,328
Penn State Health Hampden Medical CenterEnola23$41,498$12,598
Upmc Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh31$111,439$13,048
St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston50$78,244$13,059
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville36$81,266$13,090
Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey44$62,404$14,417
Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia34$60,389$14,432
Mercy Catholic Medical Center- Mercy FitzgeraldDarby20$66,551$15,087
Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia47$118,013$15,308
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia HospitalPhiladelphia19$47,749$15,910
Hospital of Univ of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia37$123,152$15,925

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.