US Health Care Costs

Stomach or intestinal bleeding, with major complications in Kentucky

MS-DRG 377: Gastrointestinal hemorrhage with mcc

$63,538typical hospital bill
$12,582typical amount paid
$11,407–$17,779range paid across 19 hospitals

Kentucky hospitals billed Medicare a typical $63,538 for this stay in 2024, about 5.1 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 HardinElizabethtown20$74,102$11,407
Baptist Health LouisvilleLouisville47$67,273$11,582
Baptist Health LexingtonLexington26$71,976$11,709
St Elizabeth FlorenceFlorence16$48,851$11,761
Tristar Greenview Regional HospitalBowling Green13$68,356$11,993
St Elizabeth EdgewoodEdgewood40$49,839$12,180
King's Daughters' Medical CenterAshland56$55,008$12,287
Mercy Health - Lourdes HospitalPaducah25$58,411$12,306
Deaconess Henderson HospitalHenderson20$38,787$12,506
Lake Cumberland Regional HospitalSomerset19$83,237$12,582
Norton Hospitals, IncLouisville80$63,538$13,007
Baptist Health PaducahPaducah13$88,392$13,371
Saint Joseph HospitalLexington40$52,228$13,492
Baptist Health Deaconess MadisonvilleMadisonville12$83,311$13,630
The Medical Center (bowling Green)Bowling Green34$56,487$13,716
Uofl Health - Jewish Hospital and Mary & Elizabeth HospitalLouisville32$58,938$13,746
Owensboro Health Regional HospitalOwensboro21$38,789$15,581
Pikeville Medical CenterPikeville19$80,629$15,882
University of Kentucky HospitalLexington46$68,054$17,779

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.