Heart Failure Cost in Nebraska — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for heart failure with major comorbidities or complications, often involving fluid overload, low ejection fraction, or arrhythmia.
State average
$24,739
gross charge · DRG 291
Hospitals
11
with published pricing
Price range
$4,658 – $57,840
low to high
Data notes for Nebraska
- The lowest published charge ($4,658 at Cherry County Hospital) 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
Cherry County Hospital
Valentine, NE
Gross charge $4,658Cash pay $4,192 - 2Gross charge $8,302Cash pay $6,642
- 3
Kimball Health Services
Kimball, NE
Gross charge $15,366 - 4
Phelps Memorial Health Center
Holdrege, NE
Gross charge $16,942Cash pay $15,248 - 5
Memorial Health Care Systems
Seward, NE
Gross charge $17,613 - 6
St Francis Memorial Hospital
West Point, NE
Gross charge $19,257 - 7
Grand Island Regional Medical Center
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge $30,148Medicare pays (avg) $9,801 - 8
The Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
Gross charge $32,904Cash pay $21,387Medicare pays (avg) $10,658 - 9
Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center
Bellevue, NE
Gross charge $32,904Cash pay $21,387Medicare pays (avg) $7,519 - 10
Mary Lanning Healthcare
Hastings, NE
Gross charge $36,199Cash pay $32,579Medicare pays (avg) $8,319 - 11
Tri Valley Health System
Cambridge, NE
Gross charge $57,840Cash pay $52,056 - 12
CHI Health Good Samaritan (Acute Care)
Kearney, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,727 - 13
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 70th St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,328 - 14
CHI Health St. Francis (Acute Care)
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,514 - 15
Methodist Hospital
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,055 - 16Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $11,037
- 17
Regional West Medical Center
Scottsbluff, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,495 - 18
Chi Health Immanuel
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $9,826 - 19
Chi Health Midlands
Papillion, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,022 - 20
Columbus Community Hospital, Inc
Columbus, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $11,726 - 21
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 91st St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,602 - 22
CHI Health Lakeside
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,303 - 23
Midwest Surgical Hospital Llc
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 24
CHI Health Schuyler
Schuyler, NE
Gross charge — - 25
Chi Health St Mary's
Nebraska City, NE
Gross charge — - 26
Plainview Hospital
Plainview, NE
Gross charge — - 27Gross charge —Cash pay $20,425
- 28
Lexington Regional Health Center
Lexington, NE
Gross charge —
Nebraska hospitals price heart failure (Medicare DRG 291) anywhere from $4,658 to $57,840 — a $53,183 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Cherry County Hospital in Valentine; the most expensive is Tri Valley Health System in Cambridge. The state average sits at $24,739.
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 heart failure 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 heart failure 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 heart failure in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 291 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.