Hip & Knee Replacement Cost in Nebraska — Compare All Hospitals
Major joint replacement or reattachment of the lower extremity — most commonly elective hip or knee replacement surgery.
What this hospital charge usually covers
The gross-charge number above is the hospital's facility bill for hip & knee replacement. Here's what's typically inside that price (typical inpatient stay: 1–3 days):
Included in the hospital bill
- Operating room time and surgical-team facility fees
- Inpatient room, nursing, and routine medications during the stay
- Implant-related facility charges (varies by hospital — sometimes itemized separately)
- Recovery-room and immediate post-op monitoring
- On-site physical therapy started during admission
Usually billed separately
- Surgeon and anesthesiologist professional fees (billed separately, often by an unaffiliated practice)
- Pre-surgical imaging (MRI/X-ray) and lab work
- Outpatient physical therapy after discharge
- Home health visits or skilled nursing facility stays if needed
Quality signals to check before picking a hospital
Price alone won't tell you which hospital does hip & knee replacement best. These are the CMS quality measures that matter most for this specific procedure. Click any hospital below for its full profile, then look for these:
Hip/Knee Complications
Tracks how often patients have a serious surgical or medical complication within 90 days — the single most direct quality signal for this surgery.
Hip/Knee Readmissions
How often patients return to the hospital within 30 days of discharge. Lower means better recovery planning and follow-up.
Surgical-Site Infection (SSI)
Joint replacements carry a real infection risk because implants can't fight bacteria the way native tissue can. Lower SIR is better.
Patient Experience (HCAHPS)
Communication with nurses, pain control, and discharge planning directly affect recovery for major orthopedic surgery.
When the cheapest hospital may not be the best fit
The list below sorts by price. For hip & knee replacement, the lowest price isn't automatically the best fit — these are situations where it's worth weighing additional factors against price. None of the below is medical advice; talk to your doctor about what applies to your specific situation.
- For patients with significant heart, lung, or bleeding-disorder risk, complication and rescue rates often matter more than price.
- Revision surgery (replacement of a prior implant) is technically harder and tends to do better at a high-volume center.
- When extensive post-acute rehab is expected, a hospital with an on-site inpatient rehab unit may be worth a higher total cost.
- When a specific surgeon only operates at certain facilities, surgeon experience usually outweighs price differences across facilities.
Questions to ask your hospital or insurer
The gross charge is the starting point. These are the procedure-specific questions to ask before you commit:
- Is the surgeon, anesthesiologist, implant, and on-site physical therapy included in this estimate?
- Is the orthopedic surgeon and anesthesia group in-network for my insurance?
- What is the typical out-of-pocket once my deductible and coinsurance apply?
- What is the hospital's surgical-site infection rate for joint replacements?
- Will I be discharged home or to a skilled nursing facility? Is that cost covered?
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Cherry County Hospital
Valentine, NE
Gross charge $11,461Cash pay $10,315 - 2
St Francis Memorial Hospital
West Point, NE
Gross charge $28,934 - 3
Phelps Memorial Health Center
Holdrege, NE
Gross charge $33,277Cash pay $29,949 - 4
Kearney County Health Services Hospital
Minden, NE
Gross charge $36,552Cash pay $29,242 - 5
Mary Lanning Healthcare
Hastings, NE
Gross charge $37,346Cash pay $33,611 - 6
Lincoln Surgical Hospital
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge $37,468Medicare pays (avg) $11,497 - 7Gross charge $46,074Cash pay $36,859
- 8
Chadron Hospital
Chadron, NE
Gross charge $46,500Cash pay $32,550 - 9
Butler County Health
David City, NE
Gross charge $53,437 - 10
Great Plains Health Heart Institute
North Platte, NE
Gross charge $59,126Cash pay $35,476Medicare pays (avg) $12,240 - 11
The Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
Gross charge $63,664Cash pay $41,381Medicare pays (avg) $14,933 - 12
Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center
Bellevue, NE
Gross charge $63,664Cash pay $41,381Medicare pays (avg) $10,888 - 13
Grand Island Regional Medical Center
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge $66,769 - 14
Community Medical Center, Inc
Falls City, NE
Gross charge $71,416Cash pay $47,135 - 15
CHI Health Good Samaritan (Acute Care)
Kearney, NE
Gross charge — - 16
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 70th St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $11,741 - 17
CHI Health St. Francis (Acute Care)
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge — - 18
Methodist Hospital
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,092 - 19Gross charge —
- 20
Regional West Medical Center
Scottsbluff, NE
Gross charge — - 21
Methodist Fremont Health
Fremont, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $15,432 - 22
Chi Health Immanuel
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 23
Chi Health Midlands
Papillion, NE
Gross charge — - 24
Columbus Community Hospital, Inc
Columbus, NE
Gross charge — - 25
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 91st St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge — - 26
CHI Health Lakeside
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $11,176 - 27
Midwest Surgical Hospital Llc
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,889 - 28
CHI Health Schuyler
Schuyler, NE
Gross charge — - 29
Chi Health St. Marys
Nebraska City, NE
Gross charge — - 30
Plainview Hospital
Plainview, NE
Gross charge — - 31Gross charge —Cash pay $29,938
Nebraska hospitals price hip & knee replacement (Medicare DRG 470) anywhere from $11,461 to $71,416 — a $59,955 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Cherry County Hospital in Valentine; the most expensive is Community Medical Center, Inc in Falls City. The state average sits at $46,835.
Gross charges are the hospital's list price for the facility part of your stay — the room, operating-room time, nursing, and equipment. 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 hip & knee replacement at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
If you're scheduling hip & knee replacement in Nebraska, sort the list below by price, then click each hospital name to see its quality profile — CMS overall star rating, surgical-safety measures, readmission rates, patient-experience scores. The cheapest hospital isn't always the right call. Teaching hospitals often charge more because they take complex cases, and a higher-rated community hospital may deliver equivalent outcomes for a straightforward case at a lower price. Use the price column to narrow the field; use the quality data to make the final call.
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 hip & knee replacement in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 470 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.