DRG 176 · Respiratory

Pulmonary Embolism Cost in Kentucky — Compare All Hospitals

A blood clot that has traveled to the lungs, causing chest pain and shortness of breath. The hospital stay involves blood-thinning medicines, oxygen if needed, and monitoring while the clot stabilizes.

State average
$28,994
gross charge · DRG 176
Hospitals
20
with published pricing
Price range
$5,451 – $52,505
low to high
Lowest $5,451 Highest $52,505

20 Kentucky hospitals list a gross charge for pulmonary embolism under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $5,451 to $52,505. The cheapest is Pineville Community Health Center in Pineville; the most expensive is Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care) in Somerset. The state average sits at $28,994.

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 pulmonary embolism 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 pulmonary embolism 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 pulmonary embolism in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 176 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

    Pineville Community Health Center

    Pineville, KY

    Gross charge $5,451
  2. 2

    Monroe County Medical Center

    Tompkinsville, KY

    Gross charge $10,790
    Cash pay $8,956
  3. 3

    UK St. Claire

    Morehead, KY

    Gross charge $17,582
    Cash pay $13,187
  4. 4

    Taylor Regional Hospital

    Campbellsville, KY

    Gross charge $18,209
    Cash pay $9,105
  5. 5

    Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital

    Greenville, KY

    Gross charge $18,635
    Cash pay $12,112
  6. 6

    Owensboro Health Regional Hospital (Acute Care)

    Owensboro, KY

    11 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $18,635
    Cash pay $12,112
    Medicare pays (avg) $5,925
  7. 7

    Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center

    Leitchfield, KY

    Gross charge $18,635
    Cash pay $12,112
  8. 8
    Gross charge $30,071
    Cash pay $19,546
  9. 9

    Baptist Health Hardin

    Elizabethtown, KY

    Gross charge $30,486
    Cash pay $22,865
  10. 10

    Baptist Health Richmond

    Richmond, KY

    Gross charge $30,486
    Cash pay $22,865
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    Baptist Health Corbin (Acute Care)

    Corbin, KY

    Gross charge $30,486
    Cash pay $22,865
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    Baptist Health Lexington

    Lexington, KY

    17 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $30,486
    Cash pay $22,865
    Medicare pays (avg) $4,360
  13. 13

    Baptist Health Paducah

    Paducah, KY

    14 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $30,486
    Cash pay $22,865
    Medicare pays (avg) $4,483
  14. 14

    Baptist Health Louisville

    Louisville, KY

    48 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $30,486
    Cash pay $22,865
    Medicare pays (avg) $3,862
  15. 15

    Baptist Health La Grange

    La Grange, KY

    Gross charge $30,486
    Cash pay $22,865
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    Meadowview Regional Medical Center

    Maysville, KY

    Gross charge $34,042
    Cash pay $13,617
  17. 17

    Norton Hospitals, Inc

    Louisville, KY

    42 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $39,006
    Medicare pays (avg) $4,201
  18. 18

    Jackson Purchase Medical Center

    Mayfield, KY

    Gross charge $50,696
    Cash pay $20,279
  19. 19
    Gross charge $52,217
    Cash pay $31,330
  20. 20

    Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care)

    Somerset, KY

    Gross charge $52,505
    Cash pay $21,002
  21. 21

    Whitesburg ARH Hospital

    Whitesburg, KY

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    Highlands ARH Regional Medical Center

    Prestonsburg, KY

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  23. 23

    UK King's Daughters Medical Center

    Ashland, KY

    12 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $4,543
  24. 24

    Saint Joseph Hospital

    Lexington, KY

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    UofL Health – Shelbyville Hospital

    Shelbyville, KY

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    Middlesboro ARH Hospital

    Middlesboro, KY

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    UofL Health – Jewish Hospital

    Louisville, KY

    13 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $4,515
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    Harlan ARH Hospital

    Harlan, 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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  35. 35

    Tug Valley ARH Regional Medical Center

    South Williamson, KY

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    Paintsville ARH Hospital

    Paintsville, KY

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  37. 37

    Harrison Memorial Hospital

    Cynthiana, KY

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  38. 38

    Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville (Acute Care)

    Madisonville, KY

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    Mercy Health - Lourdes Hospital

    Paducah, KY

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  40. 40

    University of Louisville Hospital

    Louisville, KY

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    CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East

    Lexington, KY

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    Marcum and Wallace Memorial Hospital

    Irvine, KY

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    Morgan County ARH Hospital

    West Liberty, KY

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    Knox County Hospital

    Barbourville, KY

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  48. 48

    McDowell ARH Hospital

    Mc Dowell, KY

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  49. 49

    University of Kentucky Hospital

    Lexington, KY

    14 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $6,419

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