Digestive System Surgery Cost in Kentucky — Compare All Hospitals
An operation on the stomach, intestines, or other digestive organs that doesn't fall into a more specific surgical category. The stay includes surgery and a recovery period with a gradual return to eating.
State average
$87,112
gross charge · DRG 356
Hospitals
13
with published pricing
Price range
$44,993 – $125,807
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Taylor Regional Hospital
Campbellsville, KY
Gross charge $44,993Cash pay $22,497 - 2
Spring View Hospital
Lebanon, KY
Gross charge $81,215Cash pay $32,486 - 3
Baptist Health Hardin
Elizabethtown, KY
Gross charge $83,430Cash pay $62,572 - 4
Baptist Health Richmond
Richmond, KY
Gross charge $83,430Cash pay $62,572 - 5
Baptist Health Corbin (Acute Care)
Corbin, KY
Gross charge $83,430Cash pay $62,572 - 6
Baptist Health Lexington
Lexington, KY
Gross charge $83,430Cash pay $62,572 - 7
Baptist Health Paducah
Paducah, KY
Gross charge $83,430Cash pay $62,572 - 8
Baptist Health Louisville
Louisville, KY
Gross charge $83,430Cash pay $62,572 - 9
Baptist Health La Grange
La Grange, KY
Gross charge $83,430Cash pay $62,572 - 10
Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital
Greenville, KY
Gross charge $98,810Cash pay $64,226 - 11
Owensboro Health Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Owensboro, KY
Gross charge $98,810Cash pay $64,226 - 12
Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center
Leitchfield, KY
Gross charge $98,810Cash pay $64,226 - 13
Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Somerset, KY
Gross charge $125,807Cash pay $50,323 - 14
Highlands ARH Regional Medical Center
Prestonsburg, KY
Gross charge — - 15
UK King's Daughters Medical Center
Ashland, KY
Gross charge — - 16
Saint Joseph Hospital
Lexington, KY
Gross charge — - 17Gross charge —
- 18
UofL Health – Shelbyville Hospital
Shelbyville, KY
Gross charge — - 19
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital
Bardstown, KY
Gross charge — - 20
UofL Health – Jewish Hospital
Louisville, KY
Gross charge — - 21
Jennie Stuart Medical Center
Hopkinsville, KY
Gross charge — - 22
Deaconess Henderson Hospital
Henderson, KY
Gross charge — - 23
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling
Mount Sterling, KY
Gross charge — - 24
Harrison Memorial Hospital
Cynthiana, KY
Gross charge — - 25
Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville (Acute Care)
Madisonville, KY
Gross charge — - 26
University of Louisville Hospital
Louisville, KY
Gross charge — - 27
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East
Lexington, KY
Gross charge — - 28Gross charge —
- 29
McDowell ARH Hospital
Mc Dowell, KY
Gross charge — - 30
University of Kentucky Hospital
Lexington, KY
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $26,817 - 31
Norton Hospitals, Inc
Louisville, KY
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $35,221 - 32
Whitesburg ARH Hospital
Whitesburg, KY
Gross charge — - 33Gross charge —
13 Kentucky hospitals list a gross charge for digestive system surgery under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $44,993 to $125,807. The cheapest is Taylor Regional Hospital in Campbellsville; the most expensive is Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care) in Somerset. The state average sits at $87,112.
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 digestive system surgery 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 digestive system surgery 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 digestive system surgery in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 356 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.