I get pneumonia
Hospital admission for pneumonia. Average stay is about 3 days.
Typical US price before insurance
This is an allowed amount — the price actually negotiated with insurers, not the inflated list price. Source: Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker — cost of respiratory hospitalization (2018).
⚠️ This figure is from 2018 — the most recent commercial price published. No newer one exists. For scale: Medicare paid an average of $10,812 for a simple pneumonia admission in 2024 (facility only, CMS).
Medicare average total payment, 2024 (facility only, DRG 193–195). A different measure and a different population — shown for scale, not as what your insurer would pay. Source: CMS.
What you'd actually pay
Where you live
The national average price.
State prices from RAND's hospital price study — how much your state's hospitals charge private insurers relative to Medicare. This is a statewide price level, not a per-procedure state price. Maryland isn't shown: it sets hospital rates for all payers, so the comparison doesn't apply there.