US Health Care Costs

Heart failure, with major complications in Kentucky

MS-DRG 291: Heart failure and shock with mcc

$38,659typical hospital bill
$9,607typical amount paid
$7,561–$13,092range paid across 53 hospitals

Kentucky hospitals billed Medicare a typical $38,659 for this stay in 2024, about 4.0 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
Bourbon Community HospitalParis11$34,273$7,561
Baptist Health LouisvilleLouisville410$40,018$8,285
Tristar Greenview Regional HospitalBowling Green49$61,849$8,404
Highlands Arh Regional Medical CenterPrestonsburg14$40,345$8,438
King's Daughters' Medical CenterAshland214$35,220$8,527
St Elizabeth Ft ThomasFort Thomas92$32,874$8,535
Harrison Memorial HospitalCynthiana21$17,919$8,626
Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical CenterDanville97$28,133$8,667
Baptist Health HardinElizabethtown179$43,873$8,670
Clark Regional Medical CenterWinchester34$62,737$8,679
Baptist Health LexingtonLexington219$47,073$8,862
Baptist Health CorbinCorbin46$46,681$8,885
Baptist Health PaducahPaducah150$42,708$8,967
Georgetown Community HospitalGeorgetown15$93,889$8,982
Saint Joseph LondonLondon105$37,039$8,997
Whitesburg Arh HospitalWhitesburg27$41,553$9,080
Saint Joseph HospitalLexington101$39,800$9,124
Baptist Health RichmondRichmond92$38,659$9,162
Mercy Health - Lourdes HospitalPaducah89$48,363$9,270
Norton Hospitals, IncLouisville778$45,655$9,299
Jennie Stuart Medical CenterHopkinsville56$39,140$9,424
Monroe County Medical CenterTompkinsville15$16,928$9,438
St Elizabeth EdgewoodEdgewood189$32,387$9,444
St Elizabeth FlorenceFlorence98$34,438$9,475
Jackson Purchase Medical CenterMayfield29$64,895$9,525
Frankfort Regional Medical CenterFrankfort43$78,447$9,573
Deaconess Henderson HospitalHenderson91$29,870$9,607
Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical CenterLeitchfield38$21,248$9,657
St Claire Regional Medical CenterMorehead39$24,350$9,659
Baptist Health Deaconess MadisonvilleMadisonville80$58,211$9,685
T J Samson Community HospitalGlasgow122$21,213$9,705
Lake Cumberland Regional HospitalSomerset81$64,697$9,759
Baptist Health LagrangeLa Grange24$31,572$9,780
Meadowview Regional Medical CenterMaysville23$51,449$9,829
Hazard Arh Regional Medical CenterHazard31$52,114$9,870
Saint Joseph Mount SterlingMount Sterling22$21,740$9,901
Tug Valley Arh Regional Medical CenterSouth Williamson19$33,769$9,919
The Medical Center (bowling Green)Bowling Green152$36,835$10,027
The Medical Center at RussellvilleRussellville13$38,121$10,045
Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community HospitalGreenville27$19,241$10,111
Three Rivers Medical CenterLouisa16$49,912$10,205
Chi Saint Joseph Flaget Memorial HospitalBardstown44$25,493$10,340
Murray-Calloway County HospitalMurray46$31,639$10,362
Spring View HospitalLebanon17$40,331$10,448
Uofl Health - Jewish Hospital and Mary & Elizabeth HospitalLouisville222$32,420$10,459
Taylor Regional HospitalCampbellsville33$23,873$10,575
Saint Joseph EastLexington33$37,312$10,841
AdventHealthmanchesterManchester17$45,706$11,068
Uofl Health - Shelbyville HospitalShelbyville23$23,962$11,111
Owensboro Health Regional HospitalOwensboro172$24,934$11,193
Pikeville Medical CenterPikeville142$62,685$12,358
University of Louisville HospitalLouisville20$45,027$12,956
University of Kentucky HospitalLexington149$50,711$13,092

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.