DRG 192 · Respiratory

COPD Cost in Nebraska — Compare All Hospitals

A flare-up of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a long-term lung condition that makes breathing difficult. Hospital care typically includes inhaled breathing treatments, steroids, oxygen if needed, and monitoring until breathing improves.

State average
$20,952
gross charge · DRG 192
Hospitals
9
with published pricing
Price range
$9,546 – $52,201
low to high
Lowest $9,546 Highest $52,201

Nebraska hospitals price copd (Medicare DRG 192) anywhere from $9,546 to $52,201 — a $42,656 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Kimball Health Services in Kimball; the most expensive is Grand Island Regional Medical Center in Grand Island. The state average sits at $20,952.

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 192 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 $9,546
  2. 2

    St Francis Memorial Hospital

    West Point, NE

    Gross charge $9,630
  3. 3

    Cherry County Hospital

    Valentine, NE

    Gross charge $15,974
    Cash pay $14,377
  4. 4

    Phelps Memorial Health Center

    Holdrege, NE

    Gross charge $16,252
    Cash pay $14,627
  5. 5

    The Nebraska Medical Center

    Omaha, NE

    Gross charge $20,221
    Cash pay $13,143
  6. 6

    Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center

    Bellevue, NE

    Gross charge $20,221
    Cash pay $13,143
  7. 7

    Tri Valley Health System

    Cambridge, NE

    Gross charge $22,105
    Cash pay $19,895
  8. 8

    Memorial Health Care Systems

    Seward, NE

    Gross charge $22,415
  9. 9

    Grand Island Regional Medical Center

    Grand Island, NE

    Gross charge $52,201
  10. 10

    CHI Health Good Samaritan (Acute Care)

    Kearney, NE

    Gross charge
  11. 11

    CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 70th St)

    Lincoln, NE

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  12. 12

    CHI Health St. Francis (Acute Care)

    Grand Island, NE

    Gross charge
  13. 13

    Methodist Hospital

    Omaha, NE

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  14. 14
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  15. 15

    Regional West Medical Center

    Scottsbluff, NE

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  16. 16

    Methodist Fremont Health

    Fremont, NE

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  17. 17

    Chi Health Immanuel

    Omaha, NE

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  18. 18

    Chi Health Midlands

    Papillion, NE

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  19. 19

    Columbus Community Hospital, Inc

    Columbus, NE

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  20. 20

    CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 91st St)

    Lincoln, NE

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  21. 21

    CHI Health Lakeside

    Omaha, NE

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  22. 22
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  23. 23

    CHI Health Schuyler

    Schuyler, NE

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  24. 24

    Chi Health St. Marys

    Nebraska City, NE

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  25. 25

    Plainview Hospital

    Plainview, NE

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  26. 26
    Gross charge
    Cash pay $10,213

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