Infection Requiring Surgery Cost in Nebraska — Compare All Hospitals
A serious infection that requires an operation as part of treatment, such as surgery to remove infected tissue or drain an abscess. The stay involves the operation plus IV antibiotics and close monitoring, often in intensive care.
State average
$129,251
gross charge · DRG 853
Hospitals
6
with published pricing
Price range
$74,079 – $206,185
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
St Francis Memorial Hospital
West Point, NE
Gross charge $74,079 - 2
Mary Lanning Healthcare
Hastings, NE
Gross charge $90,000Cash pay $81,000 - 3
Grand Island Regional Medical Center
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge $96,933Medicare pays (avg) $52,446 - 4
Memorial Health Care Systems
Seward, NE
Gross charge $102,122 - 5
The Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
Gross charge $206,185Cash pay $134,021Medicare pays (avg) $42,699 - 6
Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center
Bellevue, NE
Gross charge $206,185Cash pay $134,021 - 7
CHI Health Good Samaritan (Acute Care)
Kearney, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $37,213 - 8
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 70th St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $36,090 - 9
CHI Health St. Francis (Acute Care)
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $31,302 - 10
Methodist Hospital
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $38,338 - 11Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $38,608
- 12
Regional West Medical Center
Scottsbluff, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $45,057 - 13
Methodist Fremont Health
Fremont, NE
Gross charge — - 14
Chi Health Immanuel
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $28,703 - 15
Chi Health Midlands
Papillion, NE
Gross charge — - 16
Columbus Community Hospital, Inc
Columbus, NE
Gross charge — - 17
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 91st St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge — - 18
CHI Health Lakeside
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $27,650 - 19
Midwest Surgical Hospital Llc
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 20
CHI Health Schuyler
Schuyler, NE
Gross charge — - 21
Chi Health St. Marys
Nebraska City, NE
Gross charge — - 22
Plainview Hospital
Plainview, NE
Gross charge — - 23Gross charge —Cash pay $79,521
Nebraska hospitals price infection requiring surgery (Medicare DRG 853) anywhere from $74,079 to $206,185 — a $132,106 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is St Francis Memorial Hospital in West Point; the most expensive is Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center in Bellevue. The state average sits at $129,251.
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 infection requiring 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 infection requiring 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. Nebraska hospitals missing from the list either don't perform infection requiring surgery in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 853 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.