DRG 696 · Kidney & Urinary

Kidney & Urinary Symptoms Cost in Kentucky — Compare All Hospitals

A hospital stay to evaluate symptoms involving the kidneys or bladder, such as blood in the urine or trouble passing urine. Care usually includes urine and blood tests, imaging, and treatment of the underlying cause.

State average
$20,646
gross charge · DRG 696
Hospitals
16
with published pricing
Price range
$8,771 – $72,791
low to high
Lowest $8,771 Highest $72,791

16 Kentucky hospitals list a gross charge for kidney & urinary symptoms under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $8,771 to $72,791. The cheapest is Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital in Greenville; the most expensive is Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care) in Somerset. The state average sits at $20,646.

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 kidney & urinary symptoms 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 kidney & urinary symptoms 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 kidney & urinary symptoms in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 696 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.

Hospitals ranked by gross charge

  1. 1

    Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital

    Greenville, KY

    Gross charge $8,771
    Cash pay $5,701
  2. 2

    Owensboro Health Regional Hospital (Acute Care)

    Owensboro, KY

    Gross charge $8,771
    Cash pay $5,701
  3. 3

    Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center

    Leitchfield, KY

    Gross charge $8,771
    Cash pay $5,701
  4. 4

    Monroe County Medical Center

    Tompkinsville, KY

    Gross charge $10,651
    Cash pay $8,840
  5. 5

    Taylor Regional Hospital

    Campbellsville, KY

    Gross charge $11,482
    Cash pay $5,741
  6. 6

    Baptist Health Hardin

    Elizabethtown, KY

    Gross charge $19,404
    Cash pay $14,553
  7. 7

    Baptist Health Richmond

    Richmond, KY

    Gross charge $19,404
    Cash pay $14,553
  8. 8

    Baptist Health Corbin (Acute Care)

    Corbin, KY

    Gross charge $19,404
    Cash pay $14,553
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    Baptist Health Lexington

    Lexington, KY

    Gross charge $19,404
    Cash pay $14,553
  10. 10

    Baptist Health Paducah

    Paducah, KY

    Gross charge $19,404
    Cash pay $14,553
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    Baptist Health Louisville

    Louisville, KY

    Gross charge $19,404
    Cash pay $14,553
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    Baptist Health La Grange

    La Grange, KY

    Gross charge $19,404
    Cash pay $14,553
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    Jackson Purchase Medical Center

    Mayfield, KY

    Gross charge $23,002
    Cash pay $9,201
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    Gross charge $24,200
    Cash pay $15,730
  15. 15

    Three Rivers Medical Center

    Louisa, KY

    Gross charge $26,063
    Cash pay $15,638
  16. 16

    Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care)

    Somerset, KY

    Gross charge $72,791
    Cash pay $29,116
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    Highlands ARH Regional Medical Center

    Prestonsburg, KY

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    UK King's Daughters Medical Center

    Ashland, KY

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    Saint Joseph Hospital

    Lexington, KY

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    UofL Health – Shelbyville Hospital

    Shelbyville, KY

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    UofL Health – Jewish Hospital

    Louisville, KY

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    Jennie Stuart Medical Center

    Hopkinsville, KY

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    Deaconess Henderson Hospital

    Henderson, KY

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    CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling

    Mount Sterling, KY

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    Harrison Memorial Hospital

    Cynthiana, KY

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    Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville (Acute Care)

    Madisonville, KY

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    University of Louisville Hospital

    Louisville, KY

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    CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East

    Lexington, KY

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    Pineville Community Health Center

    Pineville, KY

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    Cash pay $1,086
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    McDowell ARH Hospital

    Mc Dowell, KY

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    University of Kentucky Hospital

    Lexington, KY

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    Norton Hospitals, Inc

    Louisville, KY

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    Harlan ARH Hospital

    Harlan, KY

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