COPD Cost in Nebraska — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation with major comorbidities.
What this hospital charge usually covers
The gross-charge number above is the hospital's facility bill for copd. Here's what's typically inside that price (typical inpatient stay: 4–7 days):
Included in the hospital bill
- Inpatient room and respiratory monitoring
- Oxygen therapy and (if needed) BiPAP or ventilator support
- IV steroids, antibiotics, and nebulizer treatments
- Chest imaging and routine labs during admission
Usually billed separately
- Pulmonologist and hospitalist professional fees
- Outpatient pulmonary rehab program
- Home oxygen equipment after discharge
- Long-term inhaler maintenance medications
Quality signals to check before picking a hospital
Price alone won't tell you which hospital does copd best. These are the CMS quality measures that matter most for this specific procedure. Click any hospital below for its full profile, then look for these:
COPD Mortality (30-day)
How often patients hospitalized for COPD exacerbation survive 30 days.
COPD Readmissions
COPD is among the most-readmitted conditions. Strong discharge planning and pulmonary rehab referral lower this.
When the cheapest hospital may not be the best fit
The list below sorts by price. For copd, the lowest price isn't automatically the best fit — these are situations where it's worth weighing additional factors against price. None of the below is medical advice; talk to your doctor about what applies to your specific situation.
- For advanced COPD with frequent exacerbations, a hospital with a strong outpatient pulmonary program may be worth paying more for.
- For patients being considered for lung volume reduction surgery or transplant, an academic medical center is typically the right setting.
Questions to ask your hospital or insurer
The gross charge is the starting point. These are the procedure-specific questions to ask before you commit:
- Is home oxygen prescribed, and is the supplier in my insurance network?
- Is there a pulmonary rehab program available after discharge?
- Will any of my physicians be out-of-network?
Data notes for Nebraska
- The lowest published charge ($4,578 at Memorial Health Care Systems) 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
Memorial Health Care Systems
Seward, NE
Gross charge $4,578 - 2Gross charge $7,719Cash pay $6,175
- 3
Cherry County Hospital
Valentine, NE
Gross charge $11,583Cash pay $10,425 - 4
Kimball Health Services
Kimball, NE
Gross charge $15,800 - 5
St Francis Memorial Hospital
West Point, NE
Gross charge $16,616 - 6
Phelps Memorial Health Center
Holdrege, NE
Gross charge $18,192Cash pay $16,373 - 7
Grand Island Regional Medical Center
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge $36,466 - 8
The Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
Gross charge $38,596Cash pay $25,088Medicare pays (avg) $8,186 - 9
Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center
Bellevue, NE
Gross charge $38,596Cash pay $25,088Medicare pays (avg) $5,768 - 10
Mary Lanning Healthcare
Hastings, NE
Gross charge $38,992Cash pay $35,093 - 11
Tri Valley Health System
Cambridge, NE
Gross charge $39,809Cash pay $35,828 - 12
CHI Health Good Samaritan (Acute Care)
Kearney, NE
Gross charge — - 13
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 70th St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge — - 14
CHI Health St. Francis (Acute Care)
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge — - 15
Methodist Hospital
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,714 - 16Gross charge —
- 17
Regional West Medical Center
Scottsbluff, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,723 - 18
Chi Health Immanuel
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 19
Chi Health Midlands
Papillion, NE
Gross charge — - 20
Columbus Community Hospital, Inc
Columbus, NE
Gross charge — - 21
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 91st St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge — - 22
CHI Health Lakeside
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 23
Midwest Surgical Hospital Llc
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 24
CHI Health Schuyler
Schuyler, NE
Gross charge — - 25
Chi Health St Mary's
Nebraska City, NE
Gross charge — - 26
Plainview Hospital
Plainview, NE
Gross charge — - 27Gross charge —Cash pay $17,530
- 28
Dundy County Hospital
Benkelman, NE
Gross charge —
Nebraska hospitals price copd (Medicare DRG 190) anywhere from $4,578 to $39,809 — a $35,231 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Memorial Health Care Systems in Seward; the most expensive is Tri Valley Health System in Cambridge. The state average sits at $24,268.
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 copd 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 copd 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 copd in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 190 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.