Level 1 Nerve Procedures in Pennsylvania
What 123 hospitals in Pennsylvania charged and were paid for level 1 nerve procedures (APC 5431), from 2024 Medicare claims.
Average charge
$12,594
Hospital list price billed
Average allowed
$1,718
Medicare's payment + patient's share
Medicare paid
$1,364
Average per service
State rank
#22 of 49
1 = lowest average payment
Hospitals in Pennsylvania billed an average of $12,594 for level 1 nerve procedures, about 7.3 times the average medicare-allowed amount of $1,718. That payment is 3% below the U.S. average of $1,774.
These are averages for patients with original (fee-for-service) Medicare. Private insurance pays different, negotiated prices, and what you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Use these figures to compare hospitals, not as a quote.
Paid $1,718Billed $12,594
About 14¢ was paid for every $1 hospitals in Pennsylvania billed for this service.
Pennsylvania hospitals: level 1 nerve procedures
Every Pennsylvania hospital that billed Medicare for this service at least 11 times. Click a column to sort.
| Hospital | Services | Avg charge | Avg allowed | Medicare paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown | 697 | $12,032 | $1,852 | $1,471 |
| St Luke's Hospital BethlehemBethlehem | 401 | $14,378 | $1,857 | $1,471 |
| Lancaster General HospitalLancaster | 345 | $9,375 | $1,788 | $1,422 |
| Williamsport Hospital & Medical CenterWilliamsport | 313 | $13,116 | $1,720 | $1,366 |
| Gettysburg HospitalGettysburg | 265 | $5,777 | $1,223 | $970 |
| St Luke's Hospital - Anderson CampusEaston | 189 | $13,739 | $1,743 | $1,385 |
| York HospitalYork | 181 | $7,136 | $1,793 | $1,424 |
| Geisinger Medical CenterDanville | 172 | $21,514 | $1,717 | $1,362 |
| Hospital of the Univ of PaPhiladelphia | 162 | $18,870 | $872 | $694 |
| Geisinger Wyoming Vly Med CtrWilkes-Barre | 160 | $22,152 | $1,442 | $1,143 |
| Surgical Institute of ReadingWyomissing | 157 | $14,386 | $1,738 | $1,382 |
| Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia | 144 | $25,803 | $1,907 | $1,517 |
| Oss Orthopaedic HospitalYork | 137 | $6,740 | $1,776 | $1,412 |
| Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College | 132 | $9,517 | $1,948 | $1,552 |
| St Luke's Quakertown HospitalQuakertown | 127 | $11,596 | $1,851 | $1,472 |
| Robert Packer HospitalSayre | 125 | $5,285 | $1,762 | $1,402 |
| Good Samaritan HospitalLebanon | 124 | $9,534 | $1,788 | $1,415 |
| Evangelical Community HospitalLewisburg | 120 | $15,304 | $1,724 | $1,374 |
| UPMC St MargaretPittsburgh | 114 | $14,068 | $1,713 | $1,358 |
| Pennsylvania Hosp of the Univ of Pa Health SysPhiladelphia | 107 | $11,879 | $1,945 | $1,550 |
| Lehigh Valley Hospital - Dickson CityDickson City | 101 | $11,981 | $1,697 | $1,347 |
| Conemaugh Valley Memorial HospitalJohnstown | 88 | $8,927 | $1,236 | $977 |
| Advanced Surgical HospitalWashington | 85 | $8,410 | $1,725 | $1,373 |
| Latrobe Area HospitalLatrobe | 82 | $6,477 | $1,692 | $1,336 |
| Meadville Medical CenterMeadville | 79 | $12,958 | $1,847 | $1,466 |
| Mercy Hospital ScrantonScranton | 75 | $16,572 | $1,706 | $1,356 |
| UPMC Presbyterian ShadysidePittsburgh | 73 | $26,067 | $1,675 | $1,323 |
| UPMC Pinnacle HospitalsHarrisburg | 71 | $9,161 | $1,730 | $1,378 |
| Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey | 70 | $17,738 | $1,804 | $1,437 |
| UPMC EastMonroeville | 68 | $18,181 | $1,706 | $1,352 |
| Wilkes-Barre General HospitalWilkes-Barre | 66 | $22,726 | $1,683 | $1,331 |
| Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia | 65 | $27,569 | $1,909 | $1,517 |
| Lewistown HospitalLewistown | 64 | $10,507 | $1,251 | $992 |
| Dubois Regional Medical CenterDubois | 63 | $7,669 | $1,722 | $1,367 |
| Excela Health Westmoreland Regional HospitalGreensburg | 57 | $4,805 | $1,725 | $1,369 |
| Crozer Chester Medical CenterChester | 56 | $14,529 | $1,434 | $1,139 |
| Geisinger St. Luke's HospitalOrwigsburg | 56 | $14,879 | $1,754 | $1,392 |
| Uniontown HospitalUniontown | 54 | $6,051 | $1,699 | $1,347 |
| UPMC PassavantPittsburgh | 52 | $14,100 | $1,725 | $1,368 |
| Jefferson Einstein Montgomery HospitalEast Norriton | 51 | $9,347 | $1,811 | $1,442 |
| Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh | 50 | $9,550 | $1,725 | $1,370 |
| Jefferson Health- NortheastPhiladelphia | 50 | $11,692 | $1,834 | $1,451 |
| Excela Health Frick HospitalMt Pleasant | 50 | $5,387 | $1,725 | $1,371 |
| Lansdale HospitalLansdale | 48 | $4,989 | $1,811 | $1,443 |
| St Mary Medical CenterLanghorne | 47 | $15,676 | $1,919 | $1,529 |
| Main Line Hospital Bryn Mawr CampusBryn Mawr | 46 | $8,197 | $1,863 | $1,484 |
| Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg | 45 | $12,116 | $1,927 | $1,527 |
| Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia | 45 | $21,794 | $1,809 | $1,435 |
| Saint Vincent Health CenterErie | 44 | $9,972 | $1,998 | $1,578 |
| Albert Einstein Medical CenterPhiladelphia | 43 | $8,175 | $1,846 | $1,458 |
| UPMC HorizonGreenville | 41 | $8,215 | $1,724 | $1,374 |
| Main Line Hospital PaoliPaoli | 40 | $9,212 | $1,863 | $1,484 |
| UPMC LititzLititz | 37 | $11,236 | $1,698 | $1,345 |
| Northwest Medical CenterOil City | 37 | $14,025 | $1,725 | $1,371 |
| Jefferson Regional Medical CenterClairton | 37 | $11,784 | $1,725 | $1,373 |
| Somerset HospitalSomerset | 36 | $6,684 | $1,847 | $1,467 |
| Canonsburg General HospitalCanonsburg | 36 | $12,080 | $1,725 | $1,372 |
| Bucks County Specialty HospitalBensalem | 36 | $14,611 | $1,863 | $1,482 |
| Jameson Memorial HospitalNew Castle | 34 | $8,327 | $1,724 | $1,374 |
| Indiana Regional Medical CenterIndiana | 34 | $9,363 | $1,202 | $953 |
| Physicians Care Surgical HospitalRoyersford | 34 | $13,272 | $1,811 | $1,441 |
| UPMC KaneKane | 33 | $7,445 | $1,847 | $1,466 |
| ACMH HospitalKittanning | 32 | $10,371 | $1,725 | $1,364 |
| Wellspan Surgery and Rehabilitation HospitalYork | 32 | $16,385 | $1,728 | $1,377 |
| Altoona Regional Health SystemAltoona | 28 | $8,742 | $1,847 | $1,454 |
| Easton HospitalEaston | 28 | $16,240 | $1,854 | $1,477 |
| Butler Health SystemButler | 27 | $5,705 | $1,725 | $1,363 |
| Edgewood Surgical HospitalTransfer | 27 | $8,272 | $1,724 | $1,374 |
| UPMC MercyPittsburgh | 25 | $15,039 | $1,670 | $1,319 |
| Grove City Medical CenterGrove City | 24 | $8,349 | $1,725 | $1,370 |
| Geisinger-Community Medical CenterScranton | 23 | $29,204 | $1,725 | $1,363 |
| Holy Spirit HospitalCamp Hill | 21 | $23,993 | $1,748 | $1,393 |
| Magee Womens Hospital of UPMC Health SystemPittsburgh | 21 | $11,949 | $831 | $618 |
| Waynesboro HospitalWaynesboro | 21 | $9,014 | $1,926 | $1,535 |
| Ephrata Community HospitalEphrata | 21 | $10,999 | $1,761 | $1,403 |
| St Luke's Miners Memorial HospitalCoaldale | 20 | $8,148 | $1,779 | $1,417 |
| Carlisle Regional Medical CtrCarlisle | 18 | $10,855 | $1,748 | $1,393 |
| Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville | 17 | $14,973 | $1,863 | $1,484 |
| Schuylkill Medical Center - South Jackson StreetPottsville | 16 | $14,909 | $1,727 | $1,376 |
| Allegheny Valley HospitalNatrona Heights | 16 | $6,772 | $1,724 | $1,374 |
| Warren General HospitalWarren | 15 | $3,037 | $2,035 | $1,621 |
| Heritage Valley SewickleySewickley | 13 | $4,769 | $1,088 | $852 |
| Wayne Memorial HospitalHonesdale | 13 | $9,368 | $1,760 | $1,383 |
| Reading Hospital and Med CtrWest Reading | 12 | $8,656 | $1,764 | $1,400 |
| West Penn HospitalPittsburgh | 12 | $11,012 | $1,724 | $1,374 |
| Sharon Regional Health SystemSharon | 12 | $13,447 | $1,207 | $956 |
| Penn State Health Hampden Medical CenterEnola | 12 | $24,587 | $1,730 | $1,378 |
| Western Pennsylvania Hosp Forbes Regional CampusMonroeville | 11 | $9,303 | $1,725 | $1,367 |
| UPMC McKeesportMcKeesport | – | – | – | – |
| Bloomsburg HospitalBloomsburg | – | – | – | – |
| Chestnut Hill HospitalPhiladelphia | – | – | – | – |
| Heritage Valley BeaverBeaver | – | – | – | – |
| Washington Hospital, theWashington | – | – | – | – |
| Penn Highlands HuntingdonHuntingdon | – | – | – | – |
| Grand View HospitalSellersville | – | – | – | – |
| Nason HospitalRoaring Spring | – | – | – | – |
| Hamot Medical CenterErie | – | – | – | – |
| Lower Bucks HospitalBristol | – | – | – | – |
| St Joseph Medical CenterReading | – | – | – | – |
| Holy Redeemer Hosp and Med CtrJenkintown | – | – | – | – |
| UPMC MemorialYork | – | – | – | – |
| Windber HospitalWindber | – | – | – | – |
| UPMC BedfordEverett | – | – | – | – |
| Pottstown Memorial Med CenterPottstown | – | – | – | – |
| Monongahela Valley HospitalMonongahela | – | – | – | – |
| Mercy Health SystemConshohocken | – | – | – | – |
| Chester County HospitalWest Chester | – | – | – | – |
| Highlands HospitalConnellsville | – | – | – | – |
| Hazleton General HospitalHazleton | – | – | – | – |
| Main Line Hospital LankenauWynnewood | – | – | – | – |
| Fox Chase Cancer CenterPhiladelphia | – | – | – | – |
| Punxsutawney Area HospitalPunxsutawney | – | – | – | – |
| Pocono Medical CenterEast Stroudsburg | – | – | – | – |
| Doylestown HospitalDoylestown | – | – | – | – |
| Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia | – | – | – | – |
| St Clair Memorial HospitalPittsburgh | – | – | – | – |
| Abington Memorial HospitalAbington | – | – | – | – |
| Hanover HospitalHanover | – | – | – | – |
| St Luke's Hospital - Monroe CampusStroudsburg | – | – | – | – |
| AHN Wexford HospitalWexford | – | – | – | – |
| St Luke's Hospital - Carbon CampusLehighton | – | – | – | – |
| Geisinger Medical Center MuncyMuncy | – | – | – | – |
| Penn State Health Lancaster Medical CenterLancaster | – | – | – | – |
Lowest and highest allowed amounts in Pennsylvania
Among hospitals with at least 11 Medicare services. Differences reflect local wage costs, teaching status and how sick patients were, as well as price.
Lowest
| Magee Womens Hospital of UPMC Health SystemPittsburgh, PA | $831 |
|---|---|
| Hospital of the Univ of PaPhiladelphia, PA | $872 |
| Heritage Valley SewickleySewickley, PA | $1,088 |
| Indiana Regional Medical CenterIndiana, PA | $1,202 |
| Sharon Regional Health SystemSharon, PA | $1,207 |
Highest
| Warren General HospitalWarren, PA | $2,035 |
|---|---|
| Saint Vincent Health CenterErie, PA | $1,998 |
| Mount Nittany Medical CenterState College, PA | $1,948 |
| Pennsylvania Hosp of the Univ of Pa Health SysPhiladelphia, PA | $1,945 |
| Chambersburg HospitalChambersburg, PA | $1,927 |
Level 1 Nerve Procedures in other states
Questions
How much does level 1 nerve procedures cost in Pennsylvania?
In 2024 Medicare data, level 1 nerve procedures (APC 5431) at 123 hospitals in Pennsylvania was billed at $12,594 on average, while the average medicare-allowed amount was $1,718, of which Medicare paid $1,364. Your own cost depends on your insurance, deductible and the hospital.
Why are hospital charges so much higher than payments?
Charges are a hospital's list prices. Medicare pays fixed rates set in advance, and private insurers negotiate their own discounts, so almost nobody pays the full charge. For this service in Pennsylvania, average charges were 7.3 times the average payment. Uninsured patients can ask the hospital about its financial assistance (charity care) policy and cash prices.
Source: CMS, Medicare Outpatient Hospitals by Provider and Service, 2024. The allowed amount is Medicare's payment plus the patient's coinsurance. CMS omits hospitals with fewer than 11 services for privacy. About the data.