Respiratory Infection Cost in Nebraska — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for respiratory infections and inflammations with complications.
State average
$27,514
gross charge · DRG 178
Hospitals
11
with published pricing
Price range
$4,661 – $59,727
low to high
Data notes for Nebraska
- The lowest published charge ($4,661 at Harlan County 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
- 1
Harlan County Health System
Alma, NE
Gross charge $4,661Cash pay $3,729 - 2Gross charge $8,071Cash pay $6,457
- 3
Memorial Health Care Systems
Seward, NE
Gross charge $13,179 - 4
St Francis Memorial Hospital
West Point, NE
Gross charge $14,640 - 5
Phelps Memorial Health Center
Holdrege, NE
Gross charge $15,108Cash pay $13,598 - 6
Grand Island Regional Medical Center
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge $27,500 - 7
Mary Lanning Healthcare
Hastings, NE
Gross charge $28,842Cash pay $25,957 - 8
Tri Valley Health System
Cambridge, NE
Gross charge $33,842Cash pay $30,458 - 9
Kimball Health Services
Kimball, NE
Gross charge $37,353 - 10
The Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
Gross charge $59,727Cash pay $38,823Medicare pays (avg) $8,956 - 11
Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center
Bellevue, NE
Gross charge $59,727Cash pay $38,823Medicare pays (avg) $5,271 - 12
CHI Health Good Samaritan (Acute Care)
Kearney, NE
Gross charge — - 13
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 70th St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge — - 14
CHI Health St. Francis (Acute Care)
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge — - 15
Methodist Hospital
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,692 - 16Gross charge —
- 17
Regional West Medical Center
Scottsbluff, NE
Gross charge — - 18
Chi Health Immanuel
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 19
Chi Health Midlands
Papillion, NE
Gross charge — - 20
Columbus Community Hospital, Inc
Columbus, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,292 - 21
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 91st St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge — - 22
CHI Health Lakeside
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 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 $15,701
Nebraska hospitals price respiratory infection (Medicare DRG 178) anywhere from $4,661 to $59,727 — a $55,066 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 $27,514.
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 178 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.