Pneumonia Cost in Nebraska — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for simple pneumonia and pleurisy with complications — one of the most common medical admissions.
What this hospital charge usually covers
The gross-charge number above is the hospital's facility bill for pneumonia. Here's what's typically inside that price (typical inpatient stay: 3–5 days):
Included in the hospital bill
- Inpatient room and respiratory monitoring
- IV antibiotics and oxygen therapy
- Chest imaging, blood cultures, and routine labs
- Respiratory treatments (nebulizers, etc.) during the stay
Usually billed separately
- Hospitalist and infectious-disease consultant professional fees
- Pulmonologist consultation if required
- Outpatient antibiotics after discharge
- Follow-up chest imaging
Quality signals to check before picking a hospital
Price alone won't tell you which hospital does pneumonia best. These are the CMS quality measures that matter most for this specific procedure. Click any hospital below for its full profile, then look for these:
Pneumonia Mortality (30-day)
How often patients hospitalized for pneumonia survive 30 days. The headline pneumonia outcome.
Pneumonia Readmissions
Strong discharge planning, the right outpatient antibiotic, and follow-up reduce returns to the hospital.
Sepsis Care Bundle
Severe pneumonia can become sepsis. Hospitals with strong sepsis-bundle compliance catch and treat it early.
When the cheapest hospital may not be the best fit
The list below sorts by price. For pneumonia, the lowest price isn't automatically the best fit — these are situations where it's worth weighing additional factors against price. None of the below is medical advice; talk to your doctor about what applies to your specific situation.
- For patients with weakened immunity (chemotherapy, transplant, HIV), a hospital with infectious-disease specialists on staff may handle complex cases better.
- For severe pneumonia that may require ICU care, a hospital with a closed-staffed ICU is generally better equipped.
Questions to ask your hospital or insurer
The gross charge is the starting point. These are the procedure-specific questions to ask before you commit:
- Will any of my physicians be out-of-network?
- What outpatient antibiotic is prescribed, and is it covered?
- When is the follow-up chest X-ray, and where will it be done?
Data notes for Nebraska
- The lowest published charge ($3,106 at Memorial Community Hospital & Health System) is unusually low for an inpatient stay. This may reflect a data-quality issue in the hospital's MRF rather than an actual price — verify directly with the hospital before relying on it.
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1Gross charge $3,106Cash pay $2,485
- 2
Cherry County Hospital
Valentine, NE
Gross charge $10,289Cash pay $9,260 - 3
Kimball Health Services
Kimball, NE
Gross charge $11,716 - 4
St Francis Memorial Hospital
West Point, NE
Gross charge $12,089 - 5
Harlan County Health System
Alma, NE
Gross charge $12,478Cash pay $9,982 - 6
Memorial Health Care Systems
Seward, NE
Gross charge $17,338 - 7
Phelps Memorial Health Center
Holdrege, NE
Gross charge $17,561Cash pay $15,805 - 8
Mary Lanning Healthcare
Hastings, NE
Gross charge $22,219Cash pay $19,997 - 9
Grand Island Regional Medical Center
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge $24,358 - 10
The Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
Gross charge $27,311Cash pay $17,752Medicare pays (avg) $6,403 - 11
Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center
Bellevue, NE
Gross charge $27,311Cash pay $17,752Medicare pays (avg) $4,204 - 12
Tri Valley Health System
Cambridge, NE
Gross charge $35,521Cash pay $31,969 - 13
CHI Health Good Samaritan (Acute Care)
Kearney, NE
Gross charge — - 14
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 70th St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge — - 15
CHI Health St. Francis (Acute Care)
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge — - 16
Methodist Hospital
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,736 - 17Gross charge —
- 18
Regional West Medical Center
Scottsbluff, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,935 - 19
Chi Health Immanuel
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 20
Chi Health Midlands
Papillion, NE
Gross charge — - 21
Columbus Community Hospital, Inc
Columbus, NE
Gross charge — - 22
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 91st St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge — - 23
CHI Health Lakeside
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 24
Midwest Surgical Hospital Llc
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 25
CHI Health Schuyler
Schuyler, NE
Gross charge — - 26
Chi Health St Mary's
Nebraska City, NE
Gross charge — - 27
Plainview Hospital
Plainview, NE
Gross charge — - 28Gross charge —Cash pay $13,076
- 29
Lexington Regional Health Center
Lexington, NE
Gross charge —
Nebraska hospitals price pneumonia (Medicare DRG 194) anywhere from $3,106 to $35,521 — a $32,415 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Memorial Community Hospital & Health System in Blair; the most expensive is Tri Valley Health System in Cambridge. The state average sits at $18,441.
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 pneumonia 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 pneumonia 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 pneumonia in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 194 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.