US Health Care Costs

Stroke, with major complications in Kentucky

MS-DRG 064: Intracranial hemorrhage or cerebral infarction with mcc

$71,920typical hospital bill
$13,862typical amount paid
$12,380–$21,341range paid across 19 hospitals

Kentucky hospitals billed Medicare a typical $71,920 for this stay in 2024, about 5.2 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
Mercy Health - Lourdes HospitalPaducah25$54,016$12,380
Tristar Greenview Regional HospitalBowling Green11$96,364$12,647
Baptist Health LouisvilleLouisville55$74,048$12,697
Baptist Health LexingtonLexington54$84,356$12,991
St Elizabeth EdgewoodEdgewood38$48,800$13,189
King's Daughters' Medical CenterAshland39$48,486$13,375
Deaconess Henderson HospitalHenderson15$40,190$13,554
Saint Joseph HospitalLexington35$54,469$13,733
Norton Hospitals, IncLouisville117$76,457$13,805
Baptist Health Deaconess MadisonvilleMadisonville13$71,920$13,862
Baptist Health PaducahPaducah15$65,989$14,297
Baptist Health HardinElizabethtown32$80,032$14,394
Lake Cumberland Regional HospitalSomerset19$104,654$14,561
The Medical Center (bowling Green)Bowling Green40$48,566$14,851
Uofl Health - Jewish Hospital and Mary & Elizabeth HospitalLouisville16$62,614$15,543
Owensboro Health Regional HospitalOwensboro35$34,239$17,162
Pikeville Medical CenterPikeville24$76,058$18,045
University of Louisville HospitalLouisville39$109,834$20,459
University of Kentucky HospitalLexington113$108,930$21,341

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.