Inpatient stay · MS-DRG 552
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In 2024, Medicare and patients paid an average of $9,373 per stay at 1,284 hospitals. Half of hospitals averaged between $7,503 and $10,232.
National figures, 2024
- Average payment per case
- $9,373
- Typical range (middle half of hospitals)
- $7,503–$10,232
- Medicare’s share
- $7,114
- Average billed charge
- $50,120
- Hospitals reporting
- 1,284
Compare hospitals
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1,284 hospitals reported at least 11 Medicare stays for this in 2024; showing 351–400. Download as CSV
| Hospital | Cases | Average payment | vs national average | Medicare paid | Billed charge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellington Regional Medical Center | 21 | $7,591 | 19% below the national average | $5,590 | $92,288 |
| Mainehealth Mid Coast Hospital | 15 | $7,594 | 19% below the national average | $6,071 | $24,062 |
| Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital | 42 | $7,604 | 19% below the national average | $5,978 | $19,952 |
| North Mississippi Medical Center | 38 | $7,605 | 19% below the national average | $5,811 | $26,190 |
| Chambers Memorial Hospital | 12 | $7,608 | 19% below the national average | $6,519 | $8,835 |
| Emory Houston Hospital Warner Robins | 11 | $7,613 | 19% below the national average | $6,123 | $21,358 |
| Mercy Hospital | 94 | $7,620 | 19% below the national average | $6,045 | $33,847 |
| Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center | 18 | $7,621 | 19% below the national average | $6,170 | $39,794 |
| SSM St Joseph Health Center | 12 | $7,621 | 19% below the national average | $6,536 | $26,666 |
| Bethesda North | 63 | $7,631 | 19% below the national average | $5,364 | $14,819 |
| Sanford Medical Center Bismarck | 23 | $7,631 | 19% below the national average | $6,146 | $22,269 |
| Inova Mount Vernon Hospital | 12 | $7,636 | 19% below the national average | $6,228 | $31,885 |
| Loyola Gottlieb Memorial Hospital | 14 | $7,641 | 18% below the national average | $6,340 | $35,738 |
| Parkridge Medical Center | 25 | $7,643 | 18% below the national average | $6,189 | $51,079 |
| UPMC St Margaret | 20 | $7,648 | 18% below the national average | $5,671 | $37,633 |
| St Joseph Hospital | 23 | $7,657 | 18% below the national average | $5,528 | $30,815 |
| Bon Secours-St Francis Xavier Hospital | 22 | $7,659 | 18% below the national average | $5,871 | $28,992 |
| Bryan Medical Center | 90 | $7,663 | 18% below the national average | $5,660 | $27,971 |
| Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center | 67 | $7,667 | 18% below the national average | $6,000 | $8,422 |
| CHI Health Good Samaritan | 16 | $7,669 | 18% below the national average | $6,402 | $26,552 |
| SSM Health DePaul Hospital St Louis | 12 | $7,672 | 18% below the national average | $5,681 | $22,718 |
| Lehigh Valley Hospital - Pocono | 32 | $7,681 | 18% below the national average | $5,799 | $45,882 |
| The Medical Center (Bowling Green) | 21 | $7,685 | 18% below the national average | $5,554 | $31,520 |
| Round Rock Medical Center | 32 | $7,690 | 18% below the national average | $5,695 | $83,668 |
| HCA Healthone Rose | 13 | $7,697 | 18% below the national average | $6,602 | $96,070 |
| Mercy Hospital Springfield | 23 | $7,705 | 18% below the national average | $6,053 | $29,828 |
| UCH-Memorial Health System | 42 | $7,707 | 18% below the national average | $6,207 | $57,057 |
| UnityPoint Health - Meriter | 28 | $7,709 | 18% below the national average | $5,822 | $29,596 |
| Centura Health-St Anthony Hospital | 21 | $7,711 | 18% below the national average | $6,333 | $70,844 |
| Falmouth Hospital | 34 | $7,717 | 18% below the national average | $6,565 | $20,850 |
| Atrium Health Cleveland | 13 | $7,723 | 18% below the national average | $6,468 | $41,776 |
| Northside Hospital Forsyth | 36 | $7,726 | 18% below the national average | $6,457 | $50,753 |
| Poudre Valley Hospital | 19 | $7,726 | 18% below the national average | $5,993 | $36,877 |
| Medical City Plano | 91 | $7,743 | 17% below the national average | $6,239 | $85,522 |
| Community Hospital South, Inc. | 13 | $7,747 | 17% below the national average | $6,425 | $29,348 |
| Uchicago Medicine AdventHealth Bolingbrook | 11 | $7,747 | 17% below the national average | $6,412 | $33,339 |
| Flagler Hospital | 12 | $7,758 | 17% below the national average | $6,534 | $31,726 |
| Sibley Memorial Hospital | 39 | $7,758 | 17% below the national average | $6,025 | $39,048 |
| Tristar Summit Medical Center | 28 | $7,760 | 17% below the national average | $5,515 | $80,903 |
| Winchester Medical Center | 79 | $7,760 | 17% below the national average | $6,212 | $20,284 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton | 27 | $7,763 | 17% below the national average | $6,372 | $13,041 |
| Brown University Health Morton Hospital | 22 | $7,764 | 17% below the national average | $6,654 | $11,265 |
| MH St Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital | 56 | $7,766 | 17% below the national average | $5,907 | $28,976 |
| Adena Regional Medical Center | 16 | $7,766 | 17% below the national average | $6,187 | $24,451 |
| Cookeville Regional Medical Center | 16 | $7,767 | 17% below the national average | $4,337 | $24,482 |
| Alexian Brothers Medical Center 1 | 45 | $7,769 | 17% below the national average | $6,006 | $39,149 |
| HCA Florida Gulf Coast Hospital | 27 | $7,770 | 17% below the national average | $5,776 | $91,102 |
| St Alexius Medical Center | 43 | $7,771 | 17% below the national average | $6,451 | $34,869 |
| Cape Regional Medical Center Inc | 19 | $7,772 | 17% below the national average | $6,544 | $52,416 |
| Holy Cross Hospital | 32 | $7,778 | 17% below the national average | $5,986 | $33,800 |
National trend
Average payment and billed charge per stay, and how many Medicare stays were reported each year.
- Average payment
- Average billed charge
View data as a table
| Year of care | Average payment | Average billed charge |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $7,959 | $40K |
| 2021 | $8,469 | $42K |
| 2022 | $8,599 | $46K |
| 2023 | $9,001 | $47K |
| 2024 | $9,373 | $50K |
By state, 2024
Case-weighted average payment across each state’s reporting hospitals, lowest first.
Show all 51 states
| State | Hospitals | Cases | Average payment | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 15 | 261 | $7,198 | $6,678–$7,444 |
| Mississippi | 11 | 276 | $7,405 | $6,803–$7,590 |
| Iowa | 15 | 446 | $7,532 | $6,781–$7,579 |
| Kentucky | 15 | 492 | $7,648 | $6,929–$8,342 |
| Louisiana | 13 | 336 | $7,658 | $6,700–$8,419 |
| Montana | 7 | 116 | $7,819 | $7,463–$8,038 |
| Kansas | 12 | 567 | $7,955 | $6,873–$8,028 |
| Missouri | 29 | 1,091 | $8,204 | $6,742–$8,237 |
| Ohio | 57 | 1,814 | $8,251 | $6,870–$8,914 |
| West Virginia | 11 | 300 | $8,257 | $7,136–$8,707 |
| Florida | 116 | 4,956 | $8,304 | $7,218–$8,890 |
| Indiana | 28 | 897 | $8,318 | $7,290–$8,346 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | 338 | $8,356 | $7,349–$8,414 |
| Colorado | 20 | 466 | $8,431 | $7,705–$8,631 |
| North Dakota | 4 | 142 | $8,473 | $7,531–$8,811 |
| Virginia | 31 | 1,194 | $8,487 | $7,330–$8,464 |
| South Carolina | 24 | 662 | $8,491 | $7,159–$9,243 |
| New Hampshire | 10 | 295 | $8,537 | $7,584–$8,830 |
| Pennsylvania | 76 | 2,748 | $8,592 | $7,084–$9,175 |
| Alabama | 19 | 509 | $8,643 | $6,976–$8,231 |
| Nebraska | 10 | 322 | $8,645 | $7,478–$9,172 |
| Michigan | 42 | 1,528 | $8,667 | $7,911–$9,393 |
| Vermont | 1 | 31 | $8,707 | $8,707–$8,707 |
| Arizona | 22 | 739 | $8,733 | $7,413–$9,673 |
| Maine | 3 | 77 | $8,744 | $8,167–$8,915 |
| Wisconsin | 18 | 484 | $8,798 | $7,216–$8,732 |
| Minnesota | 19 | 694 | $8,895 | $7,403–$8,898 |
| Tennessee | 26 | 808 | $8,900 | $7,224–$8,825 |
| New Mexico | 5 | 81 | $8,952 | $7,482–$10,259 |
| Idaho | 4 | 103 | $8,953 | $8,893–$9,256 |
| Texas | 83 | 2,642 | $8,978 | $7,716–$9,435 |
| Utah | 8 | 208 | $9,079 | $7,160–$9,467 |
| South Dakota | 4 | 139 | $9,101 | $8,076–$9,558 |
| North Carolina | 28 | 943 | $9,102 | $7,366–$9,191 |
| Delaware | 3 | 218 | $9,137 | $8,735–$10,572 |
| Washington | 23 | 508 | $9,217 | $8,203–$9,655 |
| Illinois | 62 | 2,172 | $9,297 | $7,563–$9,486 |
| Nevada | 13 | 468 | $9,378 | $8,495–$9,931 |
| Massachusetts | 38 | 1,673 | $9,466 | $7,936–$10,530 |
| Rhode Island | 3 | 83 | $9,631 | $8,335–$10,319 |
| Alaska | 2 | 54 | $9,673 | $9,059–$10,063 |
| New Jersey | 48 | 1,949 | $9,831 | $8,208–$10,725 |
| Wyoming | 2 | 38 | $9,868 | $9,383–$10,184 |
| Oregon | 10 | 243 | $10,385 | $9,789–$11,180 |
| District of Columbia | 4 | 106 | $10,417 | $10,203–$12,526 |
| Georgia | 34 | 1,003 | $10,614 | $7,765–$10,284 |
| Connecticut | 15 | 412 | $10,795 | $9,404–$10,640 |
| California | 126 | 4,008 | $11,463 | $9,954–$12,124 |
| New York | 72 | 3,118 | $12,009 | $9,136–$13,026 |
| Maryland | 30 | 1,161 | $12,869 | $10,118–$15,578 |
| Hawaii | 3 | 62 | $12,935 | $12,011–$15,135 |
About these numbers
Average payment is what Medicare paid plus the patient’s deductible and coinsurance (and any other insurer), averaged over the hospital’s Medicare cases. It covers the hospital’s part of the care; doctors bill separately. Billed charges are the hospital’s list prices, which few patients pay.
Medicare sets its payments by formula, adjusting for local wages, teaching programs, the share of low-income patients and unusually costly cases. Those adjustments drive most differences between hospitals, so a lower payment doesn’t mean better or worse care, and Medicare patients’ own costs usually vary much less than the totals. Private insurance pays different, usually higher, prices.
Source: CMS Medicare Inpatient Hospitals by Provider and Service (Medicare fee-for-service claims). CMS omits hospitals with fewer than 11 stays. More in the glossary.