DRG 555 · Musculoskeletal

Muscle, Bone & Joint Symptoms Cost in Kentucky — Compare All Hospitals

A hospital stay to evaluate symptoms such as joint pain, muscle weakness, or limb and back problems when the cause is not yet clear. Care typically involves imaging, lab tests, and pain management while doctors search for the underlying cause.

State average
$37,435
gross charge · DRG 555
Hospitals
13
with published pricing
Price range
$9,239 – $86,326
low to high
Lowest $9,239 Highest $86,326

13 Kentucky hospitals list a gross charge for muscle, bone & joint symptoms under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $9,239 to $86,326. The cheapest is Kentucky River Medical Center in Jackson; the most expensive is Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care) in Somerset. The state average sits at $37,435.

What's listed is each hospital's gross charge — its published price for the inpatient stay, before any insurance discount. 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 muscle, bone & joint symptoms at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.

If you're scheduling muscle, bone & joint symptoms in Kentucky, sort the list below by price, then click each hospital name to see its quality profile — CMS overall star rating, surgical-safety measures, readmission rates, patient-experience scores. The cheapest hospital isn't always the right call. Teaching hospitals often charge more because they take complex cases, and a higher-rated community hospital may deliver equivalent outcomes for a straightforward case at a lower price. Use the price column to narrow the field; use the quality data to make the final call.

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 muscle, bone & joint symptoms in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 555 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
    Gross charge $9,239
    Cash pay $5,544
  2. 2

    Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital

    Greenville, KY

    Gross charge $30,021
    Cash pay $19,514
  3. 3

    Owensboro Health Regional Hospital (Acute Care)

    Owensboro, KY

    Gross charge $30,021
    Cash pay $19,514
  4. 4

    Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center

    Leitchfield, KY

    Gross charge $30,021
    Cash pay $19,514
  5. 5

    Baptist Health Hardin

    Elizabethtown, KY

    Gross charge $37,431
    Cash pay $28,073
  6. 6

    Baptist Health Richmond

    Richmond, KY

    Gross charge $37,431
    Cash pay $28,073
  7. 7

    Baptist Health Corbin (Acute Care)

    Corbin, KY

    Gross charge $37,431
    Cash pay $28,073
  8. 8

    Baptist Health Lexington

    Lexington, KY

    Gross charge $37,431
    Cash pay $28,073
  9. 9

    Baptist Health Paducah

    Paducah, KY

    Gross charge $37,431
    Cash pay $28,073
  10. 10

    Baptist Health Louisville

    Louisville, KY

    Gross charge $37,431
    Cash pay $28,073
  11. 11

    Baptist Health La Grange

    La Grange, KY

    Gross charge $37,431
    Cash pay $28,073
  12. 12

    Norton Hospitals, Inc

    Louisville, KY

    Gross charge $39,006
  13. 13

    Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care)

    Somerset, KY

    Gross charge $86,326
    Cash pay $34,531
  14. 14

    UK King's Daughters Medical Center

    Ashland, KY

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  15. 15

    Saint Joseph Hospital

    Lexington, KY

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  17. 17

    UofL Health – Shelbyville Hospital

    Shelbyville, KY

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  19. 19

    UofL Health – Jewish Hospital

    Louisville, KY

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  20. 20

    Jennie Stuart Medical Center

    Hopkinsville, KY

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  21. 21

    Deaconess Henderson Hospital

    Henderson, KY

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  22. 22

    CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling

    Mount Sterling, KY

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  23. 23

    Harrison Memorial Hospital

    Cynthiana, KY

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  24. 24

    Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville (Acute Care)

    Madisonville, KY

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  25. 25

    Mercy Health - Lourdes Hospital

    Paducah, KY

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  26. 26

    University of Louisville Hospital

    Louisville, KY

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  27. 27

    CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East

    Lexington, KY

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  28. 28

    Pineville Community Health Center

    Pineville, KY

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  29. 29

    Marcum and Wallace Memorial Hospital

    Irvine, KY

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  30. 30
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  31. 31

    University of Kentucky Hospital

    Lexington, KY

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