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Top 25 Pennsylvania hospitals by net patient revenue

Definitive Healthcare tracks more than 280 active hospitals across the state of Pennsylvania. One way to measure a hospital’s performance is through net patient revenue (NPR). NPR is calculated by taking the gross revenue from all patient care and subtracting deductions such as donations, bad debt, and contractual adjustments.

We used our HospitalView database to rank the top hospitals in Pennsylvania by net patient revenue (NPR) for the cost report period ending on 31 March 2025.

Top hospitals in PA by net patient revenue

RankHospital IDHospital nameCityNet patient revenue# of dischargesExplore dataset
13571Hospital of the University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia$3,690,950,656 43,429Explore
23567Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia (AKA CHOP)Philadelphia$3,075,271,168 22,305Explore
33525Lehigh Valley Hospital - Cedar CrestAllentown$3,019,742,464 58,745Explore
43439UPMC PresbyterianPittsburgh$2,310,905,856 39,327Explore
53490Penn State Health Milton S Hershey Medical CenterHershey$2,241,911,552 28,494Explore
63577Temple University HospitalPhiladelphia$2,220,014,080 33,371Explore
73572Thomas Jefferson University HospitalPhiladelphia$2,092,107,136 37,771Explore
83555Geisinger Medical CenterDanville$1,849,932,032 31,619Explore
93600WellSpan York HospitalYork$1,566,095,104 26,992Explore
103489UPMC Harrisburg (FKA Harrisburg Hospital)Harrisburg$1,425,027,840 32,826Explore
113519Lancaster General HospitalLancaster$1,421,482,496 27,675Explore
123437UPMC Magee-Womens HospitalPittsburgh$1,337,476,608 18,076Explore
133556St Lukes University Hospital - BethlehemBethlehem$1,309,750,272 30,743Explore
143454Reading HospitalReading$1,268,763,776 34,024Explore
153563Penn Presbyterian Medical CenterPhiladelphia$1,103,613,696 16,632Explore
163448Allegheny General HospitalPittsburgh$976,881,408 21,143Explore
173531Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterWilkes Barre$965,559,168 20,592Explore
183443UPMC Childrens Hospital of PittsburghPittsburgh$904,872,064 13,733Explore
193434West Penn HospitalPittsburgh$897,422,080 10,913Explore
203574Jefferson Einstein Hospital (FKA Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia)Philadelphia$822,169,984 19,568Explore
213549Jefferson Abington Hospital (FKA Abington Memorial Hospital)Abington$780,713,792 35,432Explore
223562Pennsylvania HospitalPhiladelphia$780,496,000 22,770Explore
233546Lankenau Medical CenterPenn Wynne$689,281,792 20,019Explore
24274152Jefferson Torresdale HospitalPhiladelphia$626,904,448 22,947Explore
253500UPMC HamotErie$578,034,304 18,512Explore

Fig 1. Data is from the Definitive Healthcare HospitalView product. Data is from the April 2025 Medicare Cost Report release. Data accessed September 2025. 

What are the top hospitals in Pennsylvania by net patient revenue?

All the hospitals on the list bring in at least half a billion dollars in NPR. Combined, the top 25 hospitals earned nearly $38 billion in net patient revenue, with the average hospital on the list earning approximately $1.5 billion.

Eight Philadelphia hospitals make the top 25 list. The Philadelphia hospital, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania,is in first place with $3.7 billion in NPR. This short-term acute care hospital is also ranked #1 in Pennsylvania by US News and World Report.

The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is a part of the Penn Medicine health system, which has 117 entities spanning from ambulatory surgery centers to hospitals to physician groups. Definitive Healthcare uses a proprietary affiliations intelligence to classify integrated delivery network (IDN) levels to determine how closely integrated a hospital is with a health system. The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is classified as a System IV, strategic integration, which means that the hospital and the health system have an exceptional degree of integration with information systems, centralized administrative control, purchasing, and distribution.

All the hospitals on the list are classified as short-term acute care except for two children’s hospitals—one of them being the second-place facility, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (also known as CHOP). This voluntary nonprofit hospital is a children’s hospital and the only hospital on the list that is not a part of an IDN. Children’s Hospital NPR is roughly $3.1 billion.

Why is net patient revenue important?

Net patient revenue (NPR) can be a key indicator of a healthcare organization’s financial health and performance as it is influenced by patient volumes, reimbursement, and the need to keep up with changing regulations.

Companies use NPR to determine which healthcare organizations can benefit from and have the propensity to buy their solutions.

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