US Health Care Costs

Urinary tract infection, with major complications in Kentucky

MS-DRG 689: Kidney and urinary tract infections with mcc

$34,897typical hospital bill
$8,401typical amount paid
$7,436–$14,665range paid across 35 hospitals

Kentucky hospitals billed Medicare a typical $34,897 for this stay in 2024, about 4.2 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
King's Daughters' Medical CenterAshland87$31,231$7,436
Baptist Health LouisvilleLouisville122$38,218$7,590
Whitesburg Arh HospitalWhitesburg12$47,536$7,760
Baptist Health HardinElizabethtown89$37,661$7,818
St Elizabeth FlorenceFlorence57$27,653$7,896
St Elizabeth Ft ThomasFort Thomas24$24,620$7,938
Baptist Health LexingtonLexington67$48,270$8,040
Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical CenterDanville33$21,119$8,043
Baptist Health CorbinCorbin23$52,419$8,114
Jennie Stuart Medical CenterHopkinsville14$34,155$8,129
Saint Joseph LondonLondon20$34,897$8,158
Mercy Health - Lourdes HospitalPaducah49$40,871$8,189
Saint Joseph HospitalLexington27$32,585$8,236
St Claire Regional Medical CenterMorehead11$18,413$8,268
Frankfort Regional Medical CenterFrankfort11$45,880$8,274
Norton Hospitals, IncLouisville168$34,063$8,280
St Elizabeth EdgewoodEdgewood70$27,515$8,316
Baptist Health PaducahPaducah29$45,548$8,401
Baptist Health RichmondRichmond18$33,735$8,406
Jackson Purchase Medical CenterMayfield17$52,747$8,429
Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community HospitalGreenville14$14,829$8,659
Kentucky River Medical CenterJackson12$54,288$8,679
Lake Cumberland Regional HospitalSomerset18$54,872$8,789
Hazard Arh Regional Medical CenterHazard13$48,371$8,816
Deaconess Henderson HospitalHenderson22$23,857$8,818
T J Samson Community HospitalGlasgow23$21,013$8,908
Tug Valley Arh Regional Medical CenterSouth Williamson15$32,210$8,939
Baptist Health Deaconess MadisonvilleMadisonville24$52,688$8,965
The Medical Center (bowling Green)Bowling Green54$35,361$9,429
Uofl Health - Jewish Hospital and Mary & Elizabeth HospitalLouisville39$33,606$9,474
Murray-Calloway County HospitalMurray17$48,980$9,552
Taylor Regional HospitalCampbellsville14$17,188$9,637
Owensboro Health Regional HospitalOwensboro34$21,839$10,183
Pikeville Medical CenterPikeville52$47,134$10,525
University of Kentucky HospitalLexington31$58,104$14,665

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.