Sepsis Cost in Nebraska — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for septicemia or severe sepsis (no extended ventilator) without major complications.
What this hospital charge usually covers
The gross-charge number above is the hospital's facility bill for sepsis. Here's what's typically inside that price (typical inpatient stay: 5–7 days):
Included in the hospital bill
- Emergency department evaluation and sepsis workup
- Inpatient room and continuous monitoring
- IV antibiotics and fluids (often broad-spectrum until culture results return)
- Blood cultures, lactate, and serial labs
- Source-control procedures if needed (drainage, etc.)
Usually billed separately
- Hospitalist, infectious-disease, and any specialty consultant fees
- Outpatient antibiotics after discharge
- Home health for any IV antibiotic continuation
- Long-term rehab if sepsis caused weakness
Quality signals to check before picking a hospital
Price alone won't tell you which hospital does sepsis best. These are the CMS quality measures that matter most for this specific procedure. Click any hospital below for its full profile, then look for these:
Sepsis Care Bundle (SEP-1)
The headline sepsis metric — measures how often hospitals deliver evidence-based sepsis care within strict time windows (antibiotics, fluids, repeat lactate).
Septic Shock 3-Hour Bundle
For the sickest sepsis patients, faster bundle completion saves lives.
Hospital-wide Mortality
Sepsis is the leading cause of in-hospital death. A hospital with strong overall mortality numbers is usually doing the right things for sepsis.
C. diff Infection Ratio
Sepsis treatment requires broad-spectrum antibiotics, which raises C. diff risk. Hospitals with low SIR control this better.
When the cheapest hospital may not be the best fit
The list below sorts by price. For sepsis, the lowest price isn't automatically the best fit — these are situations where it's worth weighing additional factors against price. None of the below is medical advice; talk to your doctor about what applies to your specific situation.
- Sepsis admissions aren't shoppable in real time — the nearest hospital is typically the right call during an acute episode. This page is more useful for chronic-condition planning or evaluating where care was delivered.
- For elderly patients or those with chronic disease, the hospital with the best SEP-1 compliance score may be worth additional travel time when distances are comparable.
Questions to ask your hospital or insurer
The gross charge is the starting point. These are the procedure-specific questions to ask before you commit:
- During acute illness: skip this list and call 911. Sepsis worsens by the hour.
- After discharge: what outpatient antibiotic continuation is needed? Is it covered?
- Is post-sepsis rehab or follow-up recommended? Where will it happen?
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Harlan County Health System
Alma, NE
Gross charge $7,676Cash pay $6,141 - 2Gross charge $9,411Cash pay $7,529
- 3
Kimball Health Services
Kimball, NE
Gross charge $10,351 - 4
Phelps Memorial Health Center
Holdrege, NE
Gross charge $13,687Cash pay $12,318 - 5
St Francis Memorial Hospital
West Point, NE
Gross charge $15,350 - 6
Cherry County Hospital
Valentine, NE
Gross charge $15,768Cash pay $14,191 - 7
Memorial Health Care Systems
Seward, NE
Gross charge $19,435 - 8
Mary Lanning Healthcare
Hastings, NE
Gross charge $25,184Cash pay $22,665Medicare pays (avg) $6,252 - 9
Grand Island Regional Medical Center
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge $28,511Medicare pays (avg) $5,701 - 10
The Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
Gross charge $40,795Cash pay $26,517Medicare pays (avg) $7,940 - 11
Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center
Bellevue, NE
Gross charge $40,795Cash pay $26,517Medicare pays (avg) $5,256 - 12
Tri Valley Health System
Cambridge, NE
Gross charge $55,223Cash pay $49,701 - 13
CHI Health Good Samaritan (Acute Care)
Kearney, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,523 - 14
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 70th St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,282 - 15
CHI Health St. Francis (Acute Care)
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,647 - 16
Methodist Hospital
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,856 - 17Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $9,075
- 18
Regional West Medical Center
Scottsbluff, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,911 - 19
Chi Health Immanuel
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,722 - 20
Chi Health Midlands
Papillion, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,104 - 21
Columbus Community Hospital, Inc
Columbus, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,477 - 22
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 91st St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge — - 23
CHI Health Lakeside
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,115 - 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 $16,385
Nebraska hospitals price sepsis (Medicare DRG 872) anywhere from $7,676 to $55,223 — a $47,547 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Harlan County Health System in Alma; the most expensive is Tri Valley Health System in Cambridge. The state average sits at $23,515.
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 872 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.