Infection After Surgery or Injury Cost in Kentucky — Compare All Hospitals
An infection that developed after an operation or an injury and requires surgery to clean out infected tissue. The stay includes the operation and IV antibiotics.
State average
$71,474
gross charge · DRG 856
Hospitals
18
with published pricing
Price range
$25,948 – $278,905
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Murray-Calloway County Hospital (Acute Care)
Murray, KY
Gross charge $25,948Cash pay $16,866 - 2
Baptist Health Hardin
Elizabethtown, KY
Gross charge $42,210Cash pay $31,657 - 3
Baptist Health Richmond
Richmond, KY
Gross charge $42,210Cash pay $31,657 - 4
Baptist Health Corbin (Acute Care)
Corbin, KY
Gross charge $42,210Cash pay $31,657 - 5
Baptist Health Lexington
Lexington, KY
Gross charge $42,210Cash pay $31,657 - 6
Baptist Health Paducah
Paducah, KY
Gross charge $42,210Cash pay $31,657 - 7
Baptist Health Louisville
Louisville, KY
Gross charge $42,210Cash pay $31,657 - 8
Baptist Health La Grange
La Grange, KY
Gross charge $42,210Cash pay $31,657 - 9
Taylor Regional Hospital
Campbellsville, KY
Gross charge $48,732Cash pay $24,366 - 10
Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital
Greenville, KY
Gross charge $52,243Cash pay $33,958 - 11
Owensboro Health Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Owensboro, KY
Gross charge $52,243Cash pay $33,958 - 12
Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center
Leitchfield, KY
Gross charge $52,243Cash pay $33,958 - 13
Spring View Hospital
Lebanon, KY
Gross charge $61,768Cash pay $24,707 - 14
Three Rivers Medical Center
Louisa, KY
Gross charge $62,465Cash pay $37,479 - 15
Norton Hospitals, Inc
Louisville, KY
Gross charge $82,299Medicare pays (avg) $28,281 - 16
UK St. Claire
Morehead, KY
Gross charge $97,199Cash pay $72,900 - 17
Jackson Purchase Medical Center
Mayfield, KY
Gross charge $177,010Cash pay $70,804 - 18
Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Somerset, KY
Gross charge $278,905Cash pay $111,562 - 19
UK King's Daughters Medical Center
Ashland, KY
Gross charge — - 20
Saint Joseph Hospital
Lexington, KY
Gross charge — - 21Gross charge —
- 22
UofL Health – Shelbyville Hospital
Shelbyville, KY
Gross charge — - 23
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital
Bardstown, KY
Gross charge — - 24
UofL Health – Jewish Hospital
Louisville, KY
Gross charge — - 25
Jennie Stuart Medical Center
Hopkinsville, KY
Gross charge — - 26
Deaconess Henderson Hospital
Henderson, KY
Gross charge — - 27
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling
Mount Sterling, KY
Gross charge — - 28
Harrison Memorial Hospital
Cynthiana, KY
Gross charge — - 29
Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville (Acute Care)
Madisonville, KY
Gross charge — - 30
Mercy Health - Lourdes Hospital
Paducah, KY
Gross charge — - 31
University of Louisville Hospital
Louisville, KY
Gross charge — - 32
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East
Lexington, KY
Gross charge — - 33Gross charge —
- 34
University of Kentucky Hospital
Lexington, KY
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $30,489
18 Kentucky hospitals list a gross charge for infection after surgery or injury under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $25,948 to $278,905. The cheapest is Murray-Calloway County Hospital (Acute Care) in Murray; the most expensive is Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care) in Somerset. The state average sits at $71,474.
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 infection after surgery or injury 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 infection after surgery or injury 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 infection after surgery or injury in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 856 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.