US Health Care Costs

Baptist Health Lagrange

1025 New Moody Lane, La Grange, KY 40031 · (502) 222-5388

General hospitalVoluntary non-profit - PrivateEmergency roomCMS rating ★★★★★

The money

$8what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$61.3Mnet income, all sources
2.5%margin on patient care alone
$2.0Mcost of charity care (0.9% of costs)
$10.9Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
52beds

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending August 2025. Non-profit hospitals must have a financial assistance (charity care) policy; ask for it if a bill is hard to pay.

Hospital stays

Medicare figures are 2024 averages for this hospital; the bars show how much of the bill was actually paid.

Billed (list price)Actually paid (Medicare + patient)

StayMedicare staysBilledPaid
Heart failure, with major complications 29124$31,572$9,780
Pneumonia, with major complications 19318$30,937$10,948
Revision of Hip or Knee Replacement Without Cc/Mcc 46818$333,978$41,637
Sepsis, with major complications 87117$38,956$13,996
Lung infection, with major complications 17714$41,495$12,422
Cash and insurer prices for this hospital haven't been added yet. Every US hospital must publish them; search the hospital's website for "price transparency" or "standard charges".