DRG 390 · Digestive

Bowel Obstruction Cost in Kentucky — Compare All Hospitals

A blockage in the intestines that stops food and fluid from passing through. Treatment usually involves resting the bowel with intravenous fluids, and sometimes a tube through the nose to relieve pressure, while the blockage clears.

State average
$20,316
gross charge · DRG 390
Hospitals
24
with published pricing
Price range
$5,915 – $37,735
low to high
Lowest $5,915 Highest $37,735

24 Kentucky hospitals list a gross charge for bowel obstruction under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $5,915 to $37,735. The cheapest is Pineville Community Health Center in Pineville; the most expensive is Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care) in Somerset. The state average sits at $20,316.

What's published is the gross charge — the starting point, not what you'd actually owe. 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 bowel obstruction at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.

You usually don't choose a hospital during an urgent bowel obstruction admission. This page is for the planning side: patients with chronic conditions weighing their options, caregivers picking ahead of time, or employers comparing in-network facilities. Click any hospital name for its full quality profile — CMS overall star rating, mortality and readmission rates, patient-experience scores. When two nearby hospitals look similar on quality, the one with lower published charges is the safer default for routine medical admissions.

Pricing comes from each hospital's Machine-Readable File (MRF), published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Kentucky hospitals missing from the list either don't perform bowel obstruction in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 390 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.

Hospitals ranked by gross charge

  1. 1

    Pineville Community Health Center

    Pineville, KY

    Gross charge $5,915
  2. 2

    Taylor Regional Hospital

    Campbellsville, KY

    Gross charge $7,369
    Cash pay $3,685
  3. 3

    Russell County Hospital

    Russell Springs, KY

    Gross charge $7,965
    Cash pay $6,372
  4. 4

    UK St. Claire

    Morehead, KY

    Gross charge $11,083
    Cash pay $8,312
  5. 5

    Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital

    Greenville, KY

    Gross charge $13,392
    Cash pay $8,705
  6. 6

    Owensboro Health Regional Hospital (Acute Care)

    Owensboro, KY

    Gross charge $13,392
    Cash pay $8,705
  7. 7

    Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center

    Leitchfield, KY

    Gross charge $13,392
    Cash pay $8,705
  8. 8

    Monroe County Medical Center

    Tompkinsville, KY

    Gross charge $13,414
    Cash pay $11,133
  9. 9
    Gross charge $14,825
    Cash pay $9,636
  10. 10
    Gross charge $18,181
    Cash pay $11,818
  11. 11

    Meadowview Regional Medical Center

    Maysville, KY

    Gross charge $19,339
    Cash pay $7,736
  12. 12

    Three Rivers Medical Center

    Louisa, KY

    Gross charge $20,377
    Cash pay $12,226
  13. 13

    Baptist Health Hardin

    Elizabethtown, KY

    14 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $25,116
    Cash pay $18,837
    Medicare pays (avg) $2,257
  14. 14

    Baptist Health Richmond

    Richmond, KY

    Gross charge $25,116
    Cash pay $18,837
  15. 15

    Baptist Health Corbin (Acute Care)

    Corbin, KY

    Gross charge $25,116
    Cash pay $18,837
  16. 16

    Baptist Health Lexington

    Lexington, KY

    Gross charge $25,116
    Cash pay $18,837
  17. 17

    Baptist Health Paducah

    Paducah, KY

    15 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $25,116
    Cash pay $18,837
    Medicare pays (avg) $2,410
  18. 18

    Baptist Health Louisville

    Louisville, KY

    26 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $25,116
    Cash pay $18,837
    Medicare pays (avg) $2,161
  19. 19

    Baptist Health La Grange

    La Grange, KY

    Gross charge $25,116
    Cash pay $18,837
  20. 20
    Gross charge $25,354
    Cash pay $15,212
  21. 21

    Jackson Purchase Medical Center

    Mayfield, KY

    Gross charge $26,847
    Cash pay $10,739
  22. 22

    Norton Hospitals, Inc

    Louisville, KY

    38 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $29,192
    Medicare pays (avg) $2,672
  23. 23

    Spring View Hospital

    Lebanon, KY

    Gross charge $34,009
    Cash pay $13,604
  24. 24

    Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care)

    Somerset, KY

    Gross charge $37,735
    Cash pay $15,094
  25. 25

    Whitesburg ARH Hospital

    Whitesburg, KY

    Gross charge
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    Highlands ARH Regional Medical Center

    Prestonsburg, KY

    Gross charge
  27. 27

    UK King's Daughters Medical Center

    Ashland, KY

    12 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $2,549
  28. 28

    Saint Joseph Hospital

    Lexington, KY

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  30. 30

    UofL Health – Shelbyville Hospital

    Shelbyville, KY

    Gross charge
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    Middlesboro ARH Hospital

    Middlesboro, KY

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    UofL Health – Jewish Hospital

    Louisville, KY

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  35. 35

    Harlan ARH Hospital

    Harlan, KY

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  36. 36

    Jennie Stuart Medical Center

    Hopkinsville, KY

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  37. 37

    Deaconess Henderson Hospital

    Henderson, KY

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  38. 38

    CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling

    Mount Sterling, KY

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  39. 39

    Tug Valley ARH Regional Medical Center

    South Williamson, KY

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  40. 40

    Paintsville ARH Hospital

    Paintsville, KY

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  41. 41

    Harrison Memorial Hospital

    Cynthiana, KY

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  42. 42

    Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville (Acute Care)

    Madisonville, KY

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  43. 43

    Mercy Health - Lourdes Hospital

    Paducah, KY

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  44. 44

    University of Louisville Hospital

    Louisville, KY

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  45. 45

    CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East

    Lexington, KY

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  46. 46
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  47. 47

    Morgan County ARH Hospital

    West Liberty, KY

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  49. 49

    Knox County Hospital

    Barbourville, KY

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  51. 51

    McDowell ARH Hospital

    Mc Dowell, KY

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  52. 52

    University of Kentucky Hospital

    Lexington, KY

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