DRG 390 · Digestive

Bowel Obstruction Cost in Nebraska — 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
$13,309
gross charge · DRG 390
Hospitals
11
with published pricing
Price range
$5,378 – $23,928
low to high
Lowest $5,378 Highest $23,928

Nebraska hospitals price bowel obstruction (Medicare DRG 390) anywhere from $5,378 to $23,928 — a $18,550 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Memorial Community Hospital & Health System in Blair; the most expensive is Tri Valley Health System in Cambridge. The state average sits at $13,309.

Gross charges are list prices, not what most patients pay. 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. Nebraska 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
    Gross charge $5,378
    Cash pay $4,302
  2. 2

    Memorial Health Care Systems

    Seward, NE

    Gross charge $6,325
  3. 3

    St Francis Memorial Hospital

    West Point, NE

    Gross charge $8,160
  4. 4

    Cherry County Hospital

    Valentine, NE

    Gross charge $11,316
    Cash pay $10,185
  5. 5
    Gross charge $13,033
    Cash pay $10,427
  6. 6

    Mary Lanning Healthcare

    Hastings, NE

    Gross charge $13,361
    Cash pay $12,025
  7. 7

    The Nebraska Medical Center

    Omaha, NE

    Gross charge $14,291
    Cash pay $9,289
  8. 8

    Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center

    Bellevue, NE

    Gross charge $14,291
    Cash pay $9,289
  9. 9

    Grand Island Regional Medical Center

    Grand Island, NE

    Gross charge $17,399
  10. 10

    Phelps Memorial Health Center

    Holdrege, NE

    Gross charge $18,911
    Cash pay $17,020
  11. 11

    Tri Valley Health System

    Cambridge, NE

    Gross charge $23,928
    Cash pay $21,535
  12. 12

    CHI Health Good Samaritan (Acute Care)

    Kearney, NE

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  13. 13

    CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 70th St)

    Lincoln, NE

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  14. 14

    CHI Health St. Francis (Acute Care)

    Grand Island, NE

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  15. 15

    Methodist Hospital

    Omaha, NE

    27 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $2,866
  16. 16
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  17. 17

    Regional West Medical Center

    Scottsbluff, NE

    11 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $3,018
  18. 18

    Methodist Fremont Health

    Fremont, NE

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  19. 19

    Chi Health Immanuel

    Omaha, NE

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  20. 20

    Chi Health Midlands

    Papillion, NE

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  21. 21

    Columbus Community Hospital, Inc

    Columbus, NE

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  22. 22

    CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 91st St)

    Lincoln, NE

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  23. 23

    CHI Health Lakeside

    Omaha, NE

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  24. 24
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  25. 25

    CHI Health Schuyler

    Schuyler, NE

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  26. 26

    Chi Health St. Marys

    Nebraska City, NE

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  27. 27

    Plainview Hospital

    Plainview, NE

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  28. 28
    Gross charge
    Cash pay $8,892

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