Chester County Hospital

701 East Marshall Street, West Chester, PA 19380 · (610) 431-5000

Charges well above the national norm

For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Chester County Hospital billed $5.06 in list charges. That gap does not change a Medicare patient's bill — but it is where an uninsured or out-of-network bill starts.

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Charge-to-payment: 5.1x; volume-weighted across all its priced work
Procedures priced: 151; inpatient and outpatient combined
Rank in PA: #54; lower markup ranks higher
CMS quality stars: 5/5; shown for context, not in the grade

How this grade was reached

Each component is scored against every other U.S. hospital in the same federal files, so the grade is a position in the country, not a pass mark we invented.

Inpatient charge markup 10.5/35

Better than 30% of U.S. hospitals.

Outpatient charge markup 16.3/25

Better than 65% of U.S. hospitals.

Price level vs national median 15.5/30

Better than 52% of U.S. hospitals.

Price consistency 6.9/10

Better than 69% of U.S. hospitals.

What this hospital treats most

The ten procedures it billed Medicare for most often, with its charge beside the national middle.

Procedure	Patients	Charged	Actually paid	vs national
Comprehensive Observation Services APC 8011 · Hospital outpatient visit	959	$20,571	$2,639	+6%
Sepsis (severe) MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay	349	$69,570	$14,204	+7%
Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage APC 5072 · Hospital outpatient visit	327	$10,246	$1,551	about average
Level 1 Endovascular Procedures APC 5191 · Hospital outpatient visit	315	$23,152	$3,135	-8%
Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures APC 5115 · Hospital outpatient visit	305	$47,387	$12,605	-24%
Heart Failure (severe) MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay	304	$44,193	$9,178	about average
Level 3 Vascular Procedures APC 5183 · Hospital outpatient visit	152	$19,396	$3,075	about average
Digestive Disorder (without major complications) MS-DRG 392 · Inpatient stay	142	$33,655	$6,011	+4%
Respiratory Infection (severe) MS-DRG 177 · Inpatient stay	124	$57,751	$11,599	+5%
Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures APC 5114 · Hospital outpatient visit	122	$32,668	$6,902	-18%

Where its charges run furthest above the national middle

Only procedures it performed at least eleven times, so a single unusual case cannot produce the headline.

Procedure	Charged	Actually paid	vs national
Level 4 Airway Endoscopy APC 5154 · Hospital outpatient visit	$39,796	$3,613	+75%
Level 5 Airway Endoscopy APC 5155 · Hospital outpatient visit	$55,134	$6,603	+43%
Respiratory Infection (with complications) MS-DRG 178 · Inpatient stay	$49,849	$7,711	+34%
Level 2 Upper GI Procedures APC 5302 · Hospital outpatient visit	$15,627	$1,836	+33%
Organic Disturbances and Intellectual Disability MS-DRG 884 · Inpatient stay	$65,857	$12,965	+32%
Alcohol, Drug Abuse or Dependence without Rehabilitation Therapy without Major MS-DRG 897 · Inpatient stay	$42,514	$6,505	+31%
Fluid and Electrolyte Disorder (without major complications) MS-DRG 641 · Inpatient stay	$37,407	$5,782	+22%
COPD (with complications) MS-DRG 191 · Inpatient stay	$40,742	$6,327	+22%

Where it charges least relative to everyone else

Procedure	Charged	Actually paid	vs national
Heart Catheter Procedure (severe) MS-DRG 321 · Inpatient stay	$75,426	$21,832	-48%
Level 2 Icd and Similar Procedures APC 5232 · Hospital outpatient visit	$82,365	$31,642	-45%
Aortic and Heart Assist Procedures Except Pulsation Balloon without Major Complications MS-DRG 269 · Inpatient stay	$93,496	$30,373	-43%
Level 4 Endovascular Procedures APC 5194 · Hospital outpatient visit	$54,380	$16,880	-43%
Level 3 Electrophysiologic Procedures APC 5213 · Hospital outpatient visit	$80,475	$22,852	-39%
Cardiac Valve and Other Major Cardiothoracic Procedures without Cardiac Catheterization MS-DRG 219 · Inpatient stay	$208,133	$53,034	-38%
Peripheral Vascular Disorders with Major Complications MS-DRG 299 · Inpatient stay	$42,391	$11,710	-37%
Level 3 Endovascular Procedures APC 5193 · Hospital outpatient visit	$42,798	$10,502	-37%

What this page cannot tell you

It is not your bill. These are averages across Medicare patients. What you pay depends on your insurance, your plan's negotiated rate and your own case.
It is not a quality rating. A hospital with a high markup may be excellent, and one with a low markup may not be. We checked: across every U.S. hospital, markup and the CMS quality star rating barely move together.
A charge is not a cost. Hospitals do not collect their list charges from insured patients. The number matters because it is the opening figure on an uninsured or out-of-network bill.
Ask for the real number. Every U.S. hospital must publish a machine-readable price file and give you a written good-faith estimate on request.

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The record

CMS provider number: 390179
Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
Emergency department: Yes
Setting: Metropolitan area core: primary flow within an urbanized area of 50,000 and greater

Source: CMS Medicare Inpatient and Outpatient utilisation files and Hospital General Information. See the files.