Medical Back Problems Cost in Nebraska — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for medical (non-surgical) back conditions including herniated discs, severe radiculopathy, and chronic pain crises.
State average
$21,806
gross charge · DRG 552
Hospitals
12
with published pricing
Price range
$3,393 – $49,638
low to high
Data notes for Nebraska
- The lowest published charge ($3,393 at Memorial Community Hospital & Health System) is unusually low for an inpatient stay. This may reflect a data-quality issue in the hospital's MRF rather than an actual price — verify directly with the hospital before relying on it.
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1Gross charge $3,393Cash pay $2,714
- 2
Harlan County Health System
Alma, NE
Gross charge $10,343Cash pay $8,275 - 3
Mary Lanning Healthcare
Hastings, NE
Gross charge $10,813Cash pay $9,732 - 4
Cherry County Hospital
Valentine, NE
Gross charge $10,908Cash pay $9,817 - 5
St Francis Memorial Hospital
West Point, NE
Gross charge $14,420 - 6
Phelps Memorial Health Center
Holdrege, NE
Gross charge $15,561Cash pay $14,005 - 7
Kimball Health Services
Kimball, NE
Gross charge $18,606 - 8
Grand Island Regional Medical Center
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge $25,485Medicare pays (avg) $4,727 - 9
The Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
Gross charge $27,130Cash pay $17,634Medicare pays (avg) $7,238 - 10
Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center
Bellevue, NE
Gross charge $27,130Cash pay $17,634Medicare pays (avg) $5,237 - 11
Tri Valley Health System
Cambridge, NE
Gross charge $48,250Cash pay $43,425 - 12
Memorial Health Care Systems
Seward, NE
Gross charge $49,638 - 13
CHI Health Good Samaritan (Acute Care)
Kearney, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,402 - 14
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 70th St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,325 - 15
CHI Health St. Francis (Acute Care)
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge — - 16
Methodist Hospital
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,464 - 17Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,935
- 18
Regional West Medical Center
Scottsbluff, NE
Gross charge — - 19
Chi Health Immanuel
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 20
Chi Health Midlands
Papillion, NE
Gross charge — - 21
Columbus Community Hospital, Inc
Columbus, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,309 - 22
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 91st St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge — - 23
CHI Health Lakeside
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 24
Midwest Surgical Hospital Llc
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 25
CHI Health Schuyler
Schuyler, NE
Gross charge — - 26
Chi Health St Mary's
Nebraska City, NE
Gross charge — - 27
Plainview Hospital
Plainview, NE
Gross charge — - 28Gross charge —Cash pay $15,366
Nebraska hospitals price medical back problems (Medicare DRG 552) anywhere from $3,393 to $49,638 — a $46,245 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Memorial Community Hospital & Health System in Blair; the most expensive is Memorial Health Care Systems in Seward. The state average sits at $21,806.
Gross charges are the hospital's list price for the facility part of your stay — the room, operating-room time, nursing, and equipment. Insurance plans negotiate substantial discounts, Medicare and Medicaid pay fixed federal rates, and uninsured patients can usually qualify for a cash-pay discount. But the gross charge still works as a useful benchmark: a hospital that lists medical back problems at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
If you're scheduling medical back problems in Nebraska, sort the list below by price, then click each hospital name to see its quality profile — CMS overall star rating, surgical-safety measures, readmission rates, patient-experience scores. The cheapest hospital isn't always the right call. Teaching hospitals often charge more because they take complex cases, and a higher-rated community hospital may deliver equivalent outcomes for a straightforward case at a lower price. Use the price column to narrow the field; use the quality data to make the final call.
Pricing comes from each hospital's Machine-Readable File (MRF), published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Nebraska hospitals missing from the list either don't perform medical back problems in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 552 in their most recent MRF, or fell below our data-quality thresholds (we filter out clearly erroneous entries like $0 charges). The list refreshes as hospitals update their files.