Cellulitis Cost in Nebraska — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for cellulitis — a bacterial skin infection typically requiring IV antibiotics.
State average
$17,272
gross charge · DRG 603
Hospitals
12
with published pricing
Price range
$5,276 – $38,326
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Harlan County Health System
Alma, NE
Gross charge $5,276Cash pay $4,221 - 2
Kimball Health Services
Kimball, NE
Gross charge $10,797 - 3
Phelps Memorial Health Center
Holdrege, NE
Gross charge $12,715Cash pay $11,443 - 4
St Francis Memorial Hospital
West Point, NE
Gross charge $13,064 - 5
Cherry County Hospital
Valentine, NE
Gross charge $13,796Cash pay $12,416 - 6Gross charge $14,912Cash pay $11,930
- 7
Memorial Health Care Systems
Seward, NE
Gross charge $15,201 - 8
Mary Lanning Healthcare
Hastings, NE
Gross charge $16,850Cash pay $15,165 - 9
The Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
Gross charge $21,997Cash pay $14,298Medicare pays (avg) $6,584 - 10
Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center
Bellevue, NE
Gross charge $21,997Cash pay $14,298Medicare pays (avg) $4,378 - 11
Grand Island Regional Medical Center
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge $22,331 - 12
Tri Valley Health System
Cambridge, NE
Gross charge $38,326Cash pay $34,494 - 13
CHI Health Good Samaritan (Acute Care)
Kearney, NE
Gross charge — - 14
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 70th St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge — - 15
CHI Health St. Francis (Acute Care)
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge — - 16
Methodist Hospital
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,171 - 17Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,830
- 18
Regional West Medical Center
Scottsbluff, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,525 - 19
Chi Health Immanuel
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 20
Chi Health Midlands
Papillion, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,498 - 21
Columbus Community Hospital, Inc
Columbus, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,687 - 22
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 91st St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge — - 23
CHI Health Lakeside
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,171 - 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 $14,078
- 29
Lexington Regional Health Center
Lexington, NE
Gross charge —
Nebraska hospitals price cellulitis (Medicare DRG 603) anywhere from $5,276 to $38,326 — a $33,050 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Harlan County Health System in Alma; the most expensive is Tri Valley Health System in Cambridge. The state average sits at $17,272.
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 cellulitis 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 cellulitis 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 cellulitis in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 603 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.