Respiratory Failure Cost in Nebraska — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for pulmonary edema and respiratory failure, often requiring ventilator support.
State average
$24,387
gross charge · DRG 189
Hospitals
12
with published pricing
Price range
$8,413 – $44,021
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Harlan County Health System
Alma, NE
Gross charge $8,413Cash pay $6,731 - 2Gross charge $10,826Cash pay $8,661
- 3
Memorial Health Care Systems
Seward, NE
Gross charge $14,271 - 4
Kimball Health Services
Kimball, NE
Gross charge $14,810 - 5
Cherry County Hospital
Valentine, NE
Gross charge $17,653Cash pay $15,888 - 6
Phelps Memorial Health Center
Holdrege, NE
Gross charge $18,331Cash pay $16,498 - 7
St Francis Memorial Hospital
West Point, NE
Gross charge $18,531 - 8
Mary Lanning Healthcare
Hastings, NE
Gross charge $26,053Cash pay $23,448Medicare pays (avg) $8,514 - 9
Tri Valley Health System
Cambridge, NE
Gross charge $37,327Cash pay $33,594 - 10
Grand Island Regional Medical Center
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge $38,391Medicare pays (avg) $7,314 - 11
The Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
Gross charge $44,021Cash pay $28,614Medicare pays (avg) $9,714 - 12
Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center
Bellevue, NE
Gross charge $44,021Cash pay $28,614Medicare pays (avg) $7,060 - 13
CHI Health Good Samaritan (Acute Care)
Kearney, NE
Gross charge — - 14
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 70th St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,677 - 15
CHI Health St. Francis (Acute Care)
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,321 - 16
Methodist Hospital
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,863 - 17Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,123
- 18
Regional West Medical Center
Scottsbluff, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $9,838 - 19
Chi Health Immanuel
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,144 - 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 —Medicare pays (avg) $6,683 - 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 $19,598
- 29
Lexington Regional Health Center
Lexington, NE
Gross charge —
Nebraska hospitals price respiratory failure (Medicare DRG 189) anywhere from $8,413 to $44,021 — a $35,608 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Harlan County Health System in Alma; the most expensive is Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center in Bellevue. The state average sits at $24,387.
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 respiratory failure 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 respiratory failure 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 respiratory failure in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 189 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.