Diabetes Cost in Nebraska — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for diabetes with complications such as ketoacidosis, hyperosmolar state, or severe hypoglycemia.
State average
$17,338
gross charge · DRG 638
Hospitals
10
with published pricing
Price range
$5,107 – $24,905
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Harlan County Health System
Alma, NE
Gross charge $5,107Cash pay $4,086 - 2
Kimball Health Services
Kimball, NE
Gross charge $12,675 - 3
St Francis Memorial Hospital
West Point, NE
Gross charge $13,443 - 4
Cherry County Hospital
Valentine, NE
Gross charge $14,435Cash pay $12,991 - 5
Phelps Memorial Health Center
Holdrege, NE
Gross charge $19,754Cash pay $17,779 - 6
Mary Lanning Healthcare
Hastings, NE
Gross charge $20,148Cash pay $18,133 - 7
The Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
Gross charge $20,723Cash pay $13,470Medicare pays (avg) $6,626 - 8
Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center
Bellevue, NE
Gross charge $20,723Cash pay $13,470Medicare pays (avg) $4,640 - 9
Tri Valley Health System
Cambridge, NE
Gross charge $21,465Cash pay $19,318 - 10
Grand Island Regional Medical Center
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge $24,905 - 11
CHI Health Good Samaritan (Acute Care)
Kearney, NE
Gross charge — - 12
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 70th St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge — - 13
CHI Health St. Francis (Acute Care)
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge — - 14
Methodist Hospital
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,226 - 15Gross charge —
- 16
Regional West Medical Center
Scottsbluff, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,680 - 17
Chi Health Immanuel
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 18
Chi Health Midlands
Papillion, NE
Gross charge — - 19
Columbus Community Hospital, Inc
Columbus, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,232 - 20
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 91st St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge — - 21
CHI Health Lakeside
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 22
Midwest Surgical Hospital Llc
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 23
CHI Health Schuyler
Schuyler, NE
Gross charge — - 24
Chi Health St Mary's
Nebraska City, NE
Gross charge — - 25
Plainview Hospital
Plainview, NE
Gross charge — - 26Gross charge —Cash pay $14,301
Nebraska hospitals price diabetes (Medicare DRG 638) anywhere from $5,107 to $24,905 — a $19,798 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Harlan County Health System in Alma; the most expensive is Grand Island Regional Medical Center in Grand Island. The state average sits at $17,338.
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 diabetes 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 diabetes 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 diabetes in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 638 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.