DRG 696 · Kidney & Urinary

Kidney & Urinary Symptoms Cost in Nebraska — 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
$12,685
gross charge · DRG 696
Hospitals
8
with published pricing
Price range
$6,149 – $17,357
low to high
Lowest $6,149 Highest $17,357

Nebraska hospitals price kidney & urinary symptoms (Medicare DRG 696) anywhere from $6,149 to $17,357 — a $11,208 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Mary Lanning Healthcare in Hastings; the most expensive is Tri Valley Health System in Cambridge. The state average sits at $12,685.

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 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. Nebraska 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

    Mary Lanning Healthcare

    Hastings, NE

    Gross charge $6,149
    Cash pay $5,534
  2. 2
    Gross charge $6,657
  3. 3

    St Francis Memorial Hospital

    West Point, NE

    Gross charge $10,335
  4. 4

    The Nebraska Medical Center

    Omaha, NE

    Gross charge $15,040
    Cash pay $9,776
  5. 5

    Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center

    Bellevue, NE

    Gross charge $15,040
    Cash pay $9,776
  6. 6

    Phelps Memorial Health Center

    Holdrege, NE

    Gross charge $15,311
    Cash pay $13,780
  7. 7

    Grand Island Regional Medical Center

    Grand Island, NE

    Gross charge $15,594
  8. 8

    Tri Valley Health System

    Cambridge, NE

    Gross charge $17,357
    Cash pay $15,621
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    CHI Health Good Samaritan (Acute Care)

    Kearney, NE

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    CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 70th St)

    Lincoln, NE

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    CHI Health St. Francis (Acute Care)

    Grand Island, NE

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    Methodist Hospital

    Omaha, NE

    11 Medicare stays/yr
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    Medicare pays (avg) $4,056
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    Regional West Medical Center

    Scottsbluff, NE

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    Chi Health Immanuel

    Omaha, NE

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    Chi Health Midlands

    Papillion, NE

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    Columbus Community Hospital, Inc

    Columbus, NE

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    CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 91st St)

    Lincoln, NE

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    CHI Health Lakeside

    Omaha, NE

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    CHI Health Schuyler

    Schuyler, NE

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    Chi Health St Mary's

    Nebraska City, NE

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    Plainview Hospital

    Plainview, NE

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  24. 24
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    Cash pay $11,008

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