DRG 881 · Mental Health & Substance Use

Depression Cost in Kentucky — Compare All Hospitals

Hospital care for depression when symptoms become severe enough to need round-the-clock support. The stay involves a safe, supervised setting, medication management, and therapy.

State average
$18,111
gross charge · DRG 881
Hospitals
16
with published pricing
Price range
$1,723 – $91,691
low to high
Lowest $1,723 Highest $91,691

16 Kentucky hospitals list a gross charge for depression under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $1,723 to $91,691. The cheapest is Pineville Community Health Center in Pineville; the most expensive is Jackson Purchase Medical Center in Mayfield. The state average sits at $18,111.

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 depression 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 depression 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 depression in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 881 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.

Data notes for Kentucky

Hospitals ranked by gross charge

  1. 1

    Pineville Community Health Center

    Pineville, KY

    Gross charge $1,723
  2. 2

    UK St. Claire

    Morehead, KY

    Gross charge $7,060
    Cash pay $5,295
  3. 3
    Gross charge $11,104
    Cash pay $6,662
  4. 4

    Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital

    Greenville, KY

    Gross charge $12,618
    Cash pay $8,202
  5. 5

    Owensboro Health Regional Hospital (Acute Care)

    Owensboro, KY

    Gross charge $12,618
    Cash pay $8,202
  6. 6

    Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center

    Leitchfield, KY

    Gross charge $12,618
    Cash pay $8,202
  7. 7

    Baptist Health Hardin

    Elizabethtown, KY

    Gross charge $14,026
    Cash pay $10,519
  8. 8

    Baptist Health Richmond

    Richmond, KY

    Gross charge $14,026
    Cash pay $10,519
  9. 9

    Baptist Health Corbin (Acute Care)

    Corbin, KY

    Gross charge $14,026
    Cash pay $10,519
  10. 10

    Baptist Health Lexington

    Lexington, KY

    Gross charge $14,026
    Cash pay $10,519
  11. 11

    Baptist Health Paducah

    Paducah, KY

    Gross charge $14,026
    Cash pay $10,519
  12. 12

    Baptist Health Louisville

    Louisville, KY

    Gross charge $14,026
    Cash pay $10,519
  13. 13

    Baptist Health La Grange

    La Grange, KY

    Gross charge $14,026
    Cash pay $10,519
  14. 14

    Three Rivers Medical Center

    Louisa, KY

    Gross charge $20,648
    Cash pay $12,389
  15. 15

    Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care)

    Somerset, KY

    Gross charge $21,515
    Cash pay $8,606
  16. 16

    Jackson Purchase Medical Center

    Mayfield, KY

    Gross charge $91,691
    Cash pay $36,677
  17. 17

    UK King's Daughters Medical Center

    Ashland, KY

    Gross charge
  18. 18

    Saint Joseph Hospital

    Lexington, KY

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  20. 20

    UofL Health – Shelbyville Hospital

    Shelbyville, KY

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  21. 21
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  22. 22

    UofL Health – Jewish Hospital

    Louisville, KY

    16 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $5,623
  23. 23

    Jennie Stuart Medical Center

    Hopkinsville, KY

    Gross charge
  24. 24

    Deaconess Henderson Hospital

    Henderson, KY

    Gross charge
  25. 25

    CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling

    Mount Sterling, KY

    Gross charge
  26. 26

    Harrison Memorial Hospital

    Cynthiana, KY

    Gross charge
  27. 27

    Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville (Acute Care)

    Madisonville, KY

    Gross charge
  28. 28

    Mercy Health - Lourdes Hospital

    Paducah, KY

    Gross charge
  29. 29

    Monroe County Medical Center

    Tompkinsville, KY

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  30. 30

    University of Louisville Hospital

    Louisville, KY

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  31. 31

    CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East

    Lexington, KY

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  33. 33

    University of Kentucky Hospital

    Lexington, KY

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