Pneumonia Cost in New York — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for simple pneumonia and pleurisy with complications — one of the most common medical admissions.
What this hospital charge usually covers
The gross-charge number above is the hospital's facility bill for pneumonia. Here's what's typically inside that price (typical inpatient stay: 3–5 days):
Included in the hospital bill
- Inpatient room and respiratory monitoring
- IV antibiotics and oxygen therapy
- Chest imaging, blood cultures, and routine labs
- Respiratory treatments (nebulizers, etc.) during the stay
Usually billed separately
- Hospitalist and infectious-disease consultant professional fees
- Pulmonologist consultation if required
- Outpatient antibiotics after discharge
- Follow-up chest imaging
Quality signals to check before picking a hospital
Price alone won't tell you which hospital does pneumonia best. These are the CMS quality measures that matter most for this specific procedure. Click any hospital below for its full profile, then look for these:
Pneumonia Mortality (30-day)
How often patients hospitalized for pneumonia survive 30 days. The headline pneumonia outcome.
Pneumonia Readmissions
Strong discharge planning, the right outpatient antibiotic, and follow-up reduce returns to the hospital.
Sepsis Care Bundle
Severe pneumonia can become sepsis. Hospitals with strong sepsis-bundle compliance catch and treat it early.
When the cheapest hospital may not be the best fit
The list below sorts by price. For pneumonia, the lowest price isn't automatically the best fit — these are situations where it's worth weighing additional factors against price. None of the below is medical advice; talk to your doctor about what applies to your specific situation.
- For patients with weakened immunity (chemotherapy, transplant, HIV), a hospital with infectious-disease specialists on staff may handle complex cases better.
- For severe pneumonia that may require ICU care, a hospital with a closed-staffed ICU is generally better equipped.
Questions to ask your hospital or insurer
The gross charge is the starting point. These are the procedure-specific questions to ask before you commit:
- Will any of my physicians be out-of-network?
- What outpatient antibiotic is prescribed, and is it covered?
- When is the follow-up chest X-ray, and where will it be done?
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Adirondack Medical Center - Saranac Lake
Saranac Lake, NY
Gross charge $5,180Cash pay $3,211 - 2
New York Community Hospital of Brooklyn, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
Gross charge $7,718 - 3
Ellis Hospital
Schenectady, NY
Gross charge $13,518Cash pay $6,759 - 4
RRH Clifton Springs Hospital & Clinic
Clifton Springs, NY
Gross charge $16,173Cash pay $10,512 - 5
St Mary's Healthcare
Amsterdam, NY
Gross charge $18,180 - 6
Canton-Potsdam Hospital
Potsdam, NY
Gross charge $22,739Cash pay $14,780 - 7
Wynn Hospital
Utica, NY
Gross charge $26,329Cash pay $15,798 - 8
Samaritan Medical Center (Acute Care)
Watertown, NY
Gross charge $27,565Cash pay $17,917 - 9
St. Peter's Hospital
Albany, NY
Gross charge $28,269Cash pay $18,375 - 10
Samaritan Hospital of Troy, New York
Troy, NY
Gross charge $28,269Cash pay $18,375 - 11
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - Sunnyview Hospital
Schenectady, NY
Gross charge $28,269Cash pay $18,375 - 12
Arnot Ogden Medical Center (Acute Care)
Elmira, NY
Gross charge $32,459 - 13
St Joseph's Medical Center
Yonkers, NY
Gross charge $55,331 - 14
Bon Secours Community Hospital
Port Jervis, NY
Gross charge $98,406Cash pay $12,999 - 15
Westchester Medical Center (Acute Care)
Valhalla, NY
Gross charge $98,406Cash pay $13,584 - 16
Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital, Inc
Binghamton, NY
Gross charge — - 17
Nassau University Medical Center (Acute Care)
East Meadow, NY
Gross charge — - 18
Richmond University Medical Center
Staten Island, NY
Gross charge — - 19
Geneva General Hospital (Acute Care)
Geneva, NY
Gross charge — - 20
Montefiore Medical Center (Acute Care)
Bronx, NY
Gross charge — - 21
UR Medicine – F.F. Thompson Hospital
Canandaigua, NY
Gross charge — - 22
Montefiore Mount Vernon Hospital
Mount Vernon, NY
Gross charge — - 23
Bertrand Chaffee Hospital
Springville, NY
Gross charge — - 24
Garnet Health Medical Center
Middletown, NY
Gross charge — - 25
UR Medicine St James Hospital
Hornell, NY
Gross charge —Cash pay $10,126 - 26
Highland Hospital
Rochester, NY
Gross charge —Cash pay $10,126 - 27
Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital
New Rochelle, NY
Gross charge — - 28
University Hospital S U N Y Health Science Center
Syracuse, NY
Gross charge — - 29
Montefiore St. Luke's Cornwall
Newburgh, NY
Gross charge —Cash pay $6,548 - 30
Strong Memorial Hospital
Rochester, NY
Gross charge —Cash pay $10,126 - 31
White Plains Hospital
White Plains, NY
Gross charge — - 32
Cayuga Medical Center
Ithaca, NY
Gross charge — - 33Gross charge —
- 34
St. Barnabas Hospital
Bronx, NY
Gross charge — - 35Gross charge —
- 36
Schuyler Hospital
Montour Falls, NY
Gross charge —
15 New York hospitals list a gross charge for pneumonia under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $5,180 to $98,406. The cheapest is Adirondack Medical Center - Saranac Lake in Saranac Lake; the most expensive is Westchester Medical Center (Acute Care) in Valhalla. The state average sits at $33,787.
What's published is the gross charge — the starting point, not what you'd actually owe. Insurance plans negotiate substantial discounts, Medicare and Medicaid pay fixed federal rates, and uninsured patients can usually qualify for a cash-pay discount. But the gross charge still works as a useful benchmark: a hospital that lists pneumonia at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
You usually don't choose a hospital during an urgent pneumonia admission. This page is for the planning side: patients with chronic conditions weighing their options, caregivers picking ahead of time, or employers comparing in-network facilities. Click any hospital name for its full quality profile — CMS overall star rating, mortality and readmission rates, patient-experience scores. When two nearby hospitals look similar on quality, the one with lower published charges is the safer default for routine medical admissions.
Pricing comes from each hospital's Machine-Readable File (MRF), published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. New York hospitals missing from the list either don't perform pneumonia in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 194 in their most recent MRF, or fell below our data-quality thresholds (we filter out clearly erroneous entries like $0 charges). The list refreshes as hospitals update their files.