DRG 483 · Musculoskeletal

Shoulder & Arm Joint Replacement Cost in Nebraska — Compare All Hospitals

Surgery to replace a major joint in the shoulder, elbow, or wrist — most often a total shoulder replacement — or to reattach part of an arm. The hospital stay covers the operation, pain control, and early physical therapy.

State average
$64,612
gross charge · DRG 483
Hospitals
6
with published pricing
Price range
$41,579 – $79,847
low to high
Lowest $41,579 Highest $79,847

Nebraska hospitals price shoulder & arm joint replacement (Medicare DRG 483) anywhere from $41,579 to $79,847 — a $38,269 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is St Francis Memorial Hospital in West Point; the most expensive is Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center in Bellevue. The state average sits at $64,612.

Gross charges are the hospital's list price for the facility part of your stay — the room, operating-room time, nursing, and equipment. 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 shoulder & arm joint replacement at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.

If you're scheduling shoulder & arm joint replacement in Nebraska, sort the list below by price, then click each hospital name to see its quality profile — CMS overall star rating, surgical-safety measures, readmission rates, patient-experience scores. The cheapest hospital isn't always the right call. Teaching hospitals often charge more because they take complex cases, and a higher-rated community hospital may deliver equivalent outcomes for a straightforward case at a lower price. Use the price column to narrow the field; use the quality data to make the final call.

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 shoulder & arm joint replacement in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 483 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.

Hospitals ranked by gross charge

  1. 1

    St Francis Memorial Hospital

    West Point, NE

    Gross charge $41,579
  2. 2

    Lincoln Surgical Hospital

    Lincoln, NE

    23 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $43,651
    Medicare pays (avg) $15,200
  3. 3

    Mary Lanning Healthcare

    Hastings, NE

    Gross charge $67,592
    Cash pay $60,833
  4. 4

    Grand Island Regional Medical Center

    Grand Island, NE

    Gross charge $75,159
  5. 5

    The Nebraska Medical Center

    Omaha, NE

    Gross charge $79,847
    Cash pay $51,901
  6. 6

    Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center

    Bellevue, NE

    14 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $79,847
    Cash pay $51,901
    Medicare pays (avg) $15,226
  7. 7

    CHI Health Good Samaritan (Acute Care)

    Kearney, NE

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    CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 70th St)

    Lincoln, NE

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    CHI Health St. Francis (Acute Care)

    Grand Island, NE

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  10. 10

    Methodist Hospital

    Omaha, NE

    21 Medicare stays/yr
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    Medicare pays (avg) $16,188
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    Regional West Medical Center

    Scottsbluff, NE

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    Chi Health Immanuel

    Omaha, NE

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    Chi Health Midlands

    Papillion, NE

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    Columbus Community Hospital, Inc

    Columbus, NE

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    CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 91st St)

    Lincoln, NE

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    CHI Health Lakeside

    Omaha, NE

    15 Medicare stays/yr
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    Medicare pays (avg) $15,433
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    CHI Health Schuyler

    Schuyler, NE

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    Chi Health St Mary's

    Nebraska City, NE

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  21. 21

    Plainview Hospital

    Plainview, NE

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  22. 22
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    Cash pay $39,514

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