Sepsis Cost in Nebraska — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for septicemia or severe sepsis (no extended ventilator) with major complications — a life-threatening immune response to infection.
State average
$32,730
gross charge · DRG 871
Hospitals
11
with published pricing
Price range
$6,867 – $67,689
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Harlan County Health System
Alma, NE
Gross charge $6,867Cash pay $5,494 - 2Gross charge $14,800Cash pay $11,840
- 3
Memorial Health Care Systems
Seward, NE
Gross charge $17,977 - 4
Cherry County Hospital
Valentine, NE
Gross charge $18,614Cash pay $16,753 - 5
Kimball Health Services
Kimball, NE
Gross charge $19,040 - 6
Phelps Memorial Health Center
Holdrege, NE
Gross charge $26,025Cash pay $23,422 - 7
St Francis Memorial Hospital
West Point, NE
Gross charge $29,138 - 8
Mary Lanning Healthcare
Hastings, NE
Gross charge $40,991Cash pay $36,892Medicare pays (avg) $12,926 - 9
Grand Island Regional Medical Center
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge $51,197Medicare pays (avg) $11,086 - 10
The Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
Gross charge $67,689Cash pay $43,998Medicare pays (avg) $16,707 - 11
Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center
Bellevue, NE
Gross charge $67,689Cash pay $43,998Medicare pays (avg) $11,964 - 12
CHI Health Good Samaritan (Acute Care)
Kearney, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $13,311 - 13
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 70th St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,465 - 14
CHI Health St. Francis (Acute Care)
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,629 - 15
Methodist Hospital
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $13,194 - 16Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $16,192
- 17
Regional West Medical Center
Scottsbluff, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $16,565 - 18
Chi Health Immanuel
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $14,062 - 19
Chi Health Midlands
Papillion, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,435 - 20
Columbus Community Hospital, Inc
Columbus, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $17,216 - 21
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 91st St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge — - 22
CHI Health Lakeside
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $11,358 - 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 $31,544
Nebraska hospitals price sepsis (Medicare DRG 871) anywhere from $6,867 to $67,689 — a $60,822 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 $32,730.
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 sepsis 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 sepsis 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 sepsis in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 871 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.