Cardiac Arrest Cost in Kentucky — Compare All Hospitals
Emergency hospital care after the heart suddenly stops beating without an immediately clear cause. Doctors work to restart the heart, and when circulation is restored the stay involves intensive monitoring and testing to find and treat the underlying reason.
State average
$52,855
gross charge · DRG 296
Hospitals
16
with published pricing
Price range
$4,579 – $148,342
low to high
Data notes for Kentucky
- The lowest published charge ($4,579 at Monroe County Medical Center) 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
- 1
Monroe County Medical Center
Tompkinsville, KY
Gross charge $4,579Cash pay $3,801 - 2
Taylor Regional Hospital
Campbellsville, KY
Gross charge $11,751Cash pay $5,876 - 3
UK St. Claire
Morehead, KY
Gross charge $20,711Cash pay $15,533 - 4
Baptist Health Hardin
Elizabethtown, KY
Gross charge $43,196Cash pay $32,397 - 5
Baptist Health Richmond
Richmond, KY
Gross charge $43,196Cash pay $32,397 - 6
Baptist Health Corbin (Acute Care)
Corbin, KY
Gross charge $43,196Cash pay $32,397 - 7
Baptist Health Lexington
Lexington, KY
Gross charge $43,196Cash pay $32,397 - 8
Baptist Health Paducah
Paducah, KY
Gross charge $43,196Cash pay $32,397 - 9
Baptist Health Louisville
Louisville, KY
Gross charge $43,196Cash pay $32,397 - 10
Baptist Health La Grange
La Grange, KY
Gross charge $43,196Cash pay $32,397 - 11
Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital
Greenville, KY
Gross charge $61,839Cash pay $40,196 - 12
Owensboro Health Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Owensboro, KY
Gross charge $61,839Cash pay $40,196 - 13
Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center
Leitchfield, KY
Gross charge $61,839Cash pay $40,196 - 14
Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Somerset, KY
Gross charge $62,851Cash pay $25,141 - 15
Murray-Calloway County Hospital (Acute Care)
Murray, KY
Gross charge $109,558Cash pay $71,213 - 16
Jackson Purchase Medical Center
Mayfield, KY
Gross charge $148,342Cash pay $59,337 - 17
Highlands ARH Regional Medical Center
Prestonsburg, KY
Gross charge — - 18
UK King's Daughters Medical Center
Ashland, KY
Gross charge — - 19
Saint Joseph Hospital
Lexington, KY
Gross charge — - 20Gross charge —
- 21
UofL Health – Shelbyville Hospital
Shelbyville, KY
Gross charge — - 22
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital
Bardstown, KY
Gross charge — - 23
UofL Health – Jewish Hospital
Louisville, KY
Gross charge — - 24
Jennie Stuart Medical Center
Hopkinsville, KY
Gross charge — - 25
Deaconess Henderson Hospital
Henderson, KY
Gross charge — - 26
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling
Mount Sterling, KY
Gross charge — - 27
Harrison Memorial Hospital
Cynthiana, KY
Gross charge — - 28
Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville (Acute Care)
Madisonville, KY
Gross charge — - 29
University of Louisville Hospital
Louisville, KY
Gross charge — - 30
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East
Lexington, KY
Gross charge — - 31Gross charge —
- 32
McDowell ARH Hospital
Mc Dowell, KY
Gross charge — - 33
University of Kentucky Hospital
Lexington, KY
Gross charge — - 34
Norton Hospitals, Inc
Louisville, KY
Gross charge — - 35
Mercy Health - Lourdes Hospital
Paducah, KY
Gross charge — - 36Gross charge —
- 37
Harlan ARH Hospital
Harlan, KY
Gross charge —
16 Kentucky hospitals list a gross charge for cardiac arrest under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $4,579 to $148,342. The cheapest is Monroe County Medical Center in Tompkinsville; the most expensive is Jackson Purchase Medical Center in Mayfield. The state average sits at $52,855.
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 cardiac arrest 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 cardiac arrest 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 cardiac arrest in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 296 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.