Respiratory Infection Cost in Nebraska — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for respiratory infections and inflammations with major comorbidities, including severe bronchitis and lung infections.
State average
$29,722
gross charge · DRG 177
Hospitals
11
with published pricing
Price range
$10,155 – $67,851
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Memorial Health Care Systems
Seward, NE
Gross charge $10,155 - 2
Cherry County Hospital
Valentine, NE
Gross charge $11,065Cash pay $9,958 - 3
Phelps Memorial Health Center
Holdrege, NE
Gross charge $12,284Cash pay $11,056 - 4Gross charge $18,945Cash pay $15,156
- 5
Kimball Health Services
Kimball, NE
Gross charge $20,342 - 6
St Francis Memorial Hospital
West Point, NE
Gross charge $23,441 - 7
Tri Valley Health System
Cambridge, NE
Gross charge $23,578Cash pay $21,220 - 8
Mary Lanning Healthcare
Hastings, NE
Gross charge $31,330Cash pay $28,197Medicare pays (avg) $10,706 - 9
Grand Island Regional Medical Center
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge $40,106Medicare pays (avg) $8,238 - 10
The Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
Gross charge $67,851Cash pay $44,103Medicare pays (avg) $14,183 - 11
Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center
Bellevue, NE
Gross charge $67,851Cash pay $44,103Medicare pays (avg) $9,581 - 12
CHI Health Good Samaritan (Acute Care)
Kearney, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,880 - 13
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 70th St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $11,752 - 14
CHI Health St. Francis (Acute Care)
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,813 - 15
Methodist Hospital
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,781 - 16Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $14,172
- 17
Regional West Medical Center
Scottsbluff, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $13,857 - 18
Chi Health Immanuel
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,660 - 19
Chi Health Midlands
Papillion, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,938 - 20
Columbus Community Hospital, Inc
Columbus, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $18,067 - 21
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 91st St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge — - 22
CHI Health Lakeside
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,755 - 23
Midwest Surgical Hospital Llc
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 24
CHI Health Schuyler
Schuyler, NE
Gross charge — - 25
Chi Health St Mary's
Nebraska City, NE
Gross charge — - 26
Plainview Hospital
Plainview, NE
Gross charge — - 27Gross charge —Cash pay $26,979
Nebraska hospitals price respiratory infection (Medicare DRG 177) anywhere from $10,155 to $67,851 — a $57,695 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Memorial Health Care Systems in Seward; the most expensive is Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center in Bellevue. The state average sits at $29,722.
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 infection 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 infection 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 infection in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 177 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.