Signs & Symptoms Cost in Nebraska — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for unexplained signs and symptoms without a definitive diagnosis at discharge.
State average
$18,522
gross charge · DRG 948
Hospitals
12
with published pricing
Price range
$6,826 – $36,743
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Harlan County Health System
Alma, NE
Gross charge $6,826Cash pay $5,461 - 2Gross charge $7,467Cash pay $5,973
- 3
Memorial Health Care Systems
Seward, NE
Gross charge $8,657 - 4
Cherry County Hospital
Valentine, NE
Gross charge $10,271Cash pay $9,244 - 5
St Francis Memorial Hospital
West Point, NE
Gross charge $12,008 - 6
Phelps Memorial Health Center
Holdrege, NE
Gross charge $13,988Cash pay $12,589 - 7
Mary Lanning Healthcare
Hastings, NE
Gross charge $14,064Cash pay $12,658 - 8
Kimball Health Services
Kimball, NE
Gross charge $17,621 - 9
Grand Island Regional Medical Center
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge $25,455 - 10
Tri Valley Health System
Cambridge, NE
Gross charge $32,418Cash pay $29,176 - 11
The Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
Gross charge $36,743Cash pay $23,883Medicare pays (avg) $12,744 - 12
Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center
Bellevue, NE
Gross charge $36,743Cash pay $23,883Medicare pays (avg) $3,941 - 13
CHI Health Good Samaritan (Acute Care)
Kearney, NE
Gross charge — - 14
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 70th St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge — - 15
CHI Health St. Francis (Acute Care)
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge — - 16
Methodist Hospital
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,313 - 17Gross charge —
- 18
Regional West Medical Center
Scottsbluff, NE
Gross charge — - 19
Chi Health Immanuel
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 20
Chi Health Midlands
Papillion, NE
Gross charge — - 21
Columbus Community Hospital, Inc
Columbus, NE
Gross charge — - 22
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 91st St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge — - 23
CHI Health Lakeside
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 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 $12,742
Nebraska hospitals price signs & symptoms (Medicare DRG 948) anywhere from $6,826 to $36,743 — a $29,917 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 $18,522.
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 signs & symptoms 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 signs & symptoms 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 signs & symptoms in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 948 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.