Medicare hospital stays, charges and payments, 2024. Official US government data.
Medicare pays per stay
$29,419.23
2024
Average charge
$149,213.30
Hospital list price
Stays
792
54 hospitals
Medicare paid
$23.3M
For these stays
For DRG 963 (other multiple significant trauma with mcc), Medicare paid $29,419.23 per hospital stay on average in 2024. Hospitals charged $149,213.30 on average, and the total payment including the patient's share and other payers was $35,482.61. In 2023 Medicare paid $28,304.50.
792 Medicare stays were billed as DRG 963 at 54 hospitals in 2024, and Medicare paid $23.3M for them.
Among states with at least 50 stays, New York had the highest average Medicare payment for DRG 963 ($29,986.66) and Missouri the lowest ($23,874.70).
Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN had the most Medicare stays for DRG 963 in 2024: 29, with an average Medicare payment of $25,082.38.
2024
| Hospital | Stays | Average charge | Total payment | Medicare payment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN · Vanderbilt Health | 29 | $169,393.14 | $40,534.31 | $25,082.38 |
| Harborview Medical Center Seattle, WA · UW Medicine | 28 | $136,397.36 | $32,803.00 | $28,982.43 |
| University of Maryland Medical Center |
| State | Hospitals | Stays | Average charge | Medicare payment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 6 | 87 | $98,693.41 | $29,233.48 |
| New Jersey | 4 | 61 | $222,958.97 | $27,433.56 |
| Missouri | 4 | 57 | $128,943.54 | $23,874.70 |
| New York | 4 | 53 |
All diagnosis groups: Medicare hospital stays by DRG.
Official US government data on Original Medicare hospital stays, published once a year. Hospitals with fewer than 11 stays in this group are not published. Total payment adds the patient's share and payments by other insurers to the Medicare payment.
| 21 |
| $164,986.81 |
| $152,627.52 |
| $150,647.33 |
| O U Medical Center Oklahoma City, OK · OU Health | 21 | $246,700.24 | $37,283.29 | $26,261.95 |
| Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center Houston, TX · Memorial Hermann Healthcare System | 20 | $112,234.70 | $32,606.75 | $25,358.15 |
| Cooper University Hospital Camden, NJ · Cooper University Health Care | 19 | $200,894.95 | $31,002.37 | $27,231.63 |
| University of Kentucky Hospital Lexington, KY · University of Kentucky Healthcare | 17 | $117,066.41 | $24,925.82 | $19,609.76 |
| Mercy Hospital St Louis Saint Louis, MO · Mercy | 17 | $105,809.47 | $20,863.82 | $18,928.53 |
| UMass Memorial Medical Center/University Campus Worcester, MA · UMass Memorial Health Care | 17 | $163,891.35 | $41,413.71 | $34,789.06 |
| Grady Memorial Hospital Atlanta, GA · Grady Health System | 17 | $270,409.18 | $45,514.00 | $36,996.59 |
| NYU Langone Hospitals New York, NY · NYU Langone Health | 17 | $299,489.06 | $46,372.71 | $39,466.24 |
| University Health System, Inc Knoxville, TN · University of Tennessee Medical Center | 16 | $77,043.19 | $24,478.25 | $19,788.44 |
| SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital Saint Louis, MO · SSM Health | 16 | $147,185.75 | $33,313.94 | $27,152.13 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA · Mass General Brigham | 16 | $125,106.38 | $33,774.31 | $29,541.31 |
| Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick, NJ · RWJBarnabas Health | 16 | $289,058.81 | $39,122.94 | $32,705.63 |
| Uci Health-Orange Orange, CA · University of California Irvine | 16 | $262,228.38 | $51,869.31 | $40,336.88 |
| Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington Burlington, MA · Beth Israel Lahey Health | 16 | $80,558.75 | $38,442.19 | $31,040.13 |
| University of Iowa Hospital & Clinics Iowa City, IA · University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics | 15 | $159,749.40 | $31,230.87 | $25,161.40 |
| Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital Greenville, SC · Prisma Health | 15 | $91,167.87 | $34,104.40 | $16,696.00 |
| Deaconess Hospital Inc Evansville, IN · Deaconess Health System | 15 | $84,401.73 | $19,378.87 | $17,853.13 |
| Baystate Medical Center Springfield, MA · Baystate Health | 15 | $51,036.40 | $29,928.13 | $26,769.47 |
| Saint Francis Hospital, Inc Tulsa, OK · Saint Francis Health System | 15 | $64,939.00 | $19,578.47 | $18,042.47 |
| Mayo Clinic Hospital Rochester Rochester, MN · Mayo Clinic | 15 | $82,326.60 | $33,343.20 | $26,151.60 |
| Jersey Shore University Medical Center Neptune, NJ · Hackensack Meridian Health | 15 | $186,825.13 | $38,712.60 | $20,120.33 |
| Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Milwaukee, WI · ThedaCare | 15 | $122,213.80 | $28,163.20 | $22,289.73 |
| $190,461.68 |
| $29,986.66 |
| Maryland | 3 | 46 | $92,995.41 | $83,636.41 |
| Tennessee | 2 | 45 | $136,557.60 | $23,200.09 |
| California | 3 | 40 | $356,403.50 | $42,542.30 |
| Florida | 3 | 39 | $149,245.00 | $18,541.56 |
| Minnesota | 3 | 39 | $117,505.87 | $28,172.13 |
| Oklahoma | 2 | 36 | $170,966.39 | $22,837.17 |
| Kentucky | 2 | 29 | $117,488.59 | $20,715.97 |
| Washington | 1 | 28 | $136,397.36 | $28,982.43 |
| Indiana | 2 | 28 | $91,240.32 | $19,499.43 |
| Wisconsin | 2 | 26 | $123,021.62 | $22,956.38 |
| Illinois | 2 | 24 | $136,752.96 | $22,668.67 |
| Oregon | 2 | 23 | $122,631.65 | $29,400.74 |
| Texas | 1 | 20 | $112,234.70 | $25,358.15 |
| Georgia | 1 | 17 | $270,409.18 | $36,996.59 |
| Iowa | 1 | 15 | $159,749.40 | $25,161.40 |
| South Carolina | 1 | 15 | $91,167.87 | $16,696.00 |
| Delaware | 1 | 14 | $79,502.57 | $21,723.00 |
| Alabama | 1 | 13 | $159,987.85 | $18,974.92 |
| Pennsylvania | 1 | 13 | $129,842.23 | $22,519.08 |
| Virginia | 1 | 13 | $84,683.46 | $23,022.23 |
| North Carolina | 1 | 11 | $149,041.82 | $19,453.73 |