US Health Care Costs

Infectious and Parasitic Diseases with O.r. Procedures with Cc in Kentucky

MS-DRG 854: Infectious and parasitic diseases with o.r. procedures with cc

$62,117typical hospital bill
$15,312typical amount paid
$12,883–$19,947range paid across 11 hospitals

Kentucky hospitals billed Medicare a typical $62,117 for this stay in 2024, about 4.1 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
King's Daughters' Medical CenterAshland18$58,375$12,883
Baptist Health HardinElizabethtown18$70,330$13,462
Baptist Health LouisvilleLouisville43$67,116$14,078
Saint Joseph HospitalLexington11$59,970$14,274
Deaconess Henderson HospitalHenderson11$31,416$14,905
Baptist Health PaducahPaducah12$62,117$15,312
Baptist Health LexingtonLexington22$87,877$15,417
Norton Hospitals, IncLouisville45$75,587$15,594
Uofl Health - Jewish Hospital and Mary & Elizabeth HospitalLouisville19$79,405$16,210
St Elizabeth EdgewoodEdgewood14$45,759$16,234
St Elizabeth FlorenceFlorence17$55,788$19,947

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.