Major Chest Surgery Cost in Kansas — Compare All Hospitals
Major surgery inside the chest, such as removing part of a lung. The stay includes the operation, a chest tube while the lungs heal, and closely monitored recovery.
State average
$104,192
gross charge · DRG 164
Hospitals
6
with published pricing
Price range
$37,620 – $135,389
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Kansas Heart Hospital
Wichita, KS
Gross charge $37,620Cash pay $23,700 - 2
Lmh
Lawrence, KS
Gross charge $86,581Cash pay $31,169 - 3
Salina Regional Health Center (Acute Care)
Salina, KS
Gross charge $94,781Cash pay $66,347 - 4
University of Kansas Hospital
Kansas City, KS
Gross charge $135,389Cash pay $27,078Medicare pays (avg) $18,625 - 5Gross charge $135,389Cash pay $27,078
- 6
Miami County Medical Center
Paola, KS
Gross charge $135,389Cash pay $27,078 - 7
Mercy Hospital Pittsburg (Acute Care)
Pittsburg, KS
Gross charge — - 8
Saint John Hospital
Leavenworth, KS
Gross charge —Cash pay $21,416 - 9
Hays Medical Center (Acute Care)
Hays, KS
Gross charge — - 10
Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital
El Dorado, KS
Gross charge — - 11
Stormont Vail Health - Flint Hills Campus
Junction City, KS
Gross charge — - 12
Stormont Vail Hospital
Topeka, KS
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $13,839 - 13
Wichita VA Medical Center
Wichita, KS
Gross charge — - 14
Labette Health
Parsons, KS
Gross charge — - 15
Ascension Via Christi St. Francis
Wichita, KS
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $16,597 - 16
Wesley Medical Center
Wichita, KS
Gross charge — - 17
Ascension Via Christi Hospital Manhattan, Inc
Manhattan, KS
Gross charge — - 18
Providence Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
Gross charge —Cash pay $23,974 - 19
Centura St. Catherine-Dodge City
Dodge City, KS
Gross charge — - 20
Menorah Medical Center (Acute Care)
Overland Park, KS
Gross charge — - 21
Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute
Leawood, KS
Gross charge — - 22
Kansas Spine & Specialty Hospital, Llc
Wichita, KS
Gross charge — - 23
Ascension Via Christi St. Teresa
Wichita, KS
Gross charge — - 24
Hospital District #1 of Rice County
Lyons, KS
Gross charge — - 25
Wamego Health Center
Wamego, KS
Gross charge — - 26
Pawnee Valley Community Hospital
Larned, KS
Gross charge — - 27
Kingman Healthcare Center
Kingman, KS
Gross charge — - 28
Norton County Hospital
Norton, KS
Gross charge —
6 Kansas hospitals list a gross charge for major chest surgery under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $37,620 to $135,389. The cheapest is Kansas Heart Hospital in Wichita; the most expensive is Miami County Medical Center in Paola. The state average sits at $104,192.
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 major chest 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 major chest 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. Kansas hospitals missing from the list either don't perform major chest surgery in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 164 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.