US Health Care Costs

Sepsis, with major complications in Kentucky

MS-DRG 871: Septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc

$55,797typical hospital bill
$14,334typical amount paid
$11,830–$21,845range paid across 55 hospitals

Kentucky hospitals billed Medicare a typical $55,797 for this stay in 2024, about 3.9 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
Paintsville Arh HospitalPaintsville40$50,107$11,830
Tristar Greenview Regional HospitalBowling Green133$87,665$12,243
Harrison Memorial HospitalCynthiana30$22,551$12,680
Baptist Health LouisvilleLouisville466$64,459$12,786
Highlands Arh Regional Medical CenterPrestonsburg78$76,771$12,806
Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical CenterDanville131$34,157$12,990
Baptist Health LexingtonLexington295$74,949$13,016
Frankfort Regional Medical CenterFrankfort147$89,507$13,119
King's Daughters' Medical CenterAshland335$52,214$13,176
Clark Regional Medical CenterWinchester46$93,726$13,209
Whitesburg Arh HospitalWhitesburg58$63,234$13,250
Baptist Health CorbinCorbin187$60,913$13,282
Baptist Health HardinElizabethtown314$68,468$13,368
Mercy Health - Lourdes HospitalPaducah197$61,052$13,404
St Elizabeth Ft ThomasFort Thomas149$49,721$13,600
Saint Joseph LondonLondon192$51,889$13,626
Georgetown Community HospitalGeorgetown43$99,174$13,675
Jennie Stuart Medical CenterHopkinsville93$50,555$13,682
Baptist Health RichmondRichmond81$55,797$13,686
Deaconess Henderson HospitalHenderson189$39,854$13,777
Kentucky River Medical CenterJackson85$79,144$13,825
Baptist Health LagrangeLa Grange17$38,956$13,996
Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community HospitalGreenville43$27,449$14,002
Baptist Health PaducahPaducah117$66,049$14,071
Tug Valley Arh Regional Medical CenterSouth Williamson53$50,810$14,118
St Elizabeth FlorenceFlorence263$49,470$14,119
Norton Hospitals, IncLouisville1,029$67,555$14,128
Saint Joseph Mount SterlingMount Sterling48$33,665$14,334
The Medical Center at RussellvilleRussellville11$70,481$14,370
St Claire Regional Medical CenterMorehead198$40,775$14,457
Spring View HospitalLebanon49$43,270$14,518
Middlesboro Arh HospitalMiddlesboro43$45,153$14,632
Jackson Purchase Medical CenterMayfield79$92,234$14,646
Lake Cumberland Regional HospitalSomerset115$121,573$14,703
Hazard Arh Regional Medical CenterHazard130$92,507$14,708
Chi Saint Joseph Flaget Memorial HospitalBardstown126$40,778$14,769
Meadowview Regional Medical CenterMaysville66$53,198$14,849
St Elizabeth EdgewoodEdgewood389$58,498$14,853
Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical CenterLeitchfield43$39,743$14,930
Baptist Health Deaconess MadisonvilleMadisonville157$73,028$15,000
T J Samson Community HospitalGlasgow95$31,387$15,056
Harlan Arh HospitalHarlan82$46,779$15,110
Three Rivers Medical CenterLouisa43$63,736$15,129
The Medical Center (bowling Green)Bowling Green283$62,519$15,200
Uofl Health - Jewish Hospital and Mary & Elizabeth HospitalLouisville275$56,540$15,401
Saint Joseph HospitalLexington389$70,136$15,549
Murray-Calloway County HospitalMurray113$50,769$15,644
Saint Joseph EastLexington70$44,835$15,710
AdventHealthmanchesterManchester59$53,388$16,049
Taylor Regional HospitalCampbellsville33$35,845$16,101
Uofl Health - Shelbyville HospitalShelbyville30$40,526$16,504
Owensboro Health Regional HospitalOwensboro353$45,383$17,507
Pikeville Medical CenterPikeville298$81,227$18,279
University of Louisville HospitalLouisville141$93,367$20,732
University of Kentucky HospitalLexington332$96,856$21,845

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.