US Health Care Costs

Other circulation problems, with major complications in Kentucky

MS-DRG 314: Other circulatory system diagnoses with mcc

$63,567typical hospital bill
$15,272typical amount paid
$13,270–$28,505range paid across 13 hospitals

Kentucky hospitals billed Medicare a typical $63,567 for this stay in 2024, about 4.2 times what was actually paid. Medicare's payment depends mostly on the hospital's location and teaching role; the bill depends on the hospital's own price list, so bills vary far more than payments.

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

HospitalCityMedicare staysBilledPaid
Baptist Health HardinElizabethtown15$79,988$13,270
Baptist Health PaducahPaducah14$59,079$13,805
Baptist Health LouisvilleLouisville28$83,711$14,085
Mercy Health - Lourdes HospitalPaducah17$58,875$14,193
St Elizabeth EdgewoodEdgewood18$49,559$14,455
Norton Hospitals, IncLouisville90$63,567$14,483
Baptist Health LexingtonLexington23$107,603$15,272
King's Daughters' Medical CenterAshland39$56,112$15,532
Saint Joseph HospitalLexington24$58,234$15,605
Uofl Health - Jewish Hospital and Mary & Elizabeth HospitalLouisville24$61,660$16,536
Pikeville Medical CenterPikeville11$106,703$18,607
University of Kentucky HospitalLexington43$85,555$22,024
University of Louisville HospitalLouisville11$139,098$28,505

Medicare: CMS, 2024 (hospitals with 11 or more Medicare stays). Cash and insurer prices: hospitals' own price files, where read; insurer figures are commercial plans only, median and 10th–90th percentile across plans.