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. A hospital stay usually involves oxygen, inhaled breathing treatments, and steroid or antibiotic medicines until breathing improves.
State average
$20,869
gross charge · DRG 191
Hospitals
12
with published pricing
Price range
$4,540 – $38,231
low to high
Data notes for Nebraska
- The lowest published charge ($4,540 at Harlan County Health System) 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
Harlan County Health System
Alma, NE
Gross charge $4,540Cash pay $3,632 - 2Gross charge $10,960Cash pay $8,768
- 3
St Francis Memorial Hospital
West Point, NE
Gross charge $12,645 - 4
Kimball Health Services
Kimball, NE
Gross charge $13,377 - 5
Memorial Health Care Systems
Seward, NE
Gross charge $17,569 - 6
The Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
Gross charge $21,938Cash pay $14,259Medicare pays (avg) $6,391 - 7
Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center
Bellevue, NE
Gross charge $21,938Cash pay $14,259 - 8
Phelps Memorial Health Center
Holdrege, NE
Gross charge $23,935Cash pay $21,541 - 9
Cherry County Hospital
Valentine, NE
Gross charge $24,019Cash pay $21,618 - 10
Grand Island Regional Medical Center
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge $27,009 - 11
Tri Valley Health System
Cambridge, NE
Gross charge $34,272Cash pay $30,845 - 12
Mary Lanning Healthcare
Hastings, NE
Gross charge $38,231Cash pay $34,408 - 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) $4,494 - 17Gross charge —
- 18
Regional West Medical Center
Scottsbluff, NE
Gross charge — - 19
Chi Health Immanuel
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 20
Chi Health Midlands
Papillion, NE
Gross charge — - 21
Columbus Community Hospital, Inc
Columbus, NE
Gross charge — - 22
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 91st St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge — - 23
CHI Health Lakeside
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 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 $13,505
Nebraska hospitals price copd (Medicare DRG 191) anywhere from $4,540 to $38,231 — a $33,691 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Harlan County Health System in Alma; the most expensive is Mary Lanning Healthcare in Hastings. The state average sits at $20,869.
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 191 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.