Skin Ulcers Cost in Kentucky — Compare All Hospitals
Open skin wounds such as pressure sores (bedsores) that need hospital-level care. The stay involves wound cleaning, special dressings, and treatment of any infection.
State average
$27,315
gross charge · DRG 592
Hospitals
9
with published pricing
Price range
$4,818 – $66,713
low to high
Data notes for Kentucky
- The lowest published charge ($4,818 at Monroe County Medical Center) 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
Monroe County Medical Center
Tompkinsville, KY
Gross charge $4,818Cash pay $3,999 - 2
Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital
Greenville, KY
Gross charge $12,228Cash pay $7,948 - 3
Owensboro Health Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Owensboro, KY
Gross charge $12,228Cash pay $7,948 - 4
Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center
Leitchfield, KY
Gross charge $12,228Cash pay $7,948 - 5
Murray-Calloway County Hospital (Acute Care)
Murray, KY
Gross charge $21,599Cash pay $14,040 - 6
Pineville Community Health Center
Pineville, KY
Gross charge $25,883 - 7
Kentucky River Medical Center
Jackson, KY
Gross charge $38,137Cash pay $22,882 - 8
Jackson Purchase Medical Center
Mayfield, KY
Gross charge $51,997Cash pay $20,799 - 9
Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Somerset, KY
Gross charge $66,713Cash pay $26,685 - 10
Highlands ARH Regional Medical Center
Prestonsburg, KY
Gross charge — - 11
UK King's Daughters Medical Center
Ashland, KY
Gross charge — - 12
Saint Joseph Hospital
Lexington, KY
Gross charge — - 13Gross charge —
- 14
UofL Health – Shelbyville Hospital
Shelbyville, KY
Gross charge — - 15
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital
Bardstown, KY
Gross charge — - 16
UofL Health – Jewish Hospital
Louisville, KY
Gross charge — - 17
Jennie Stuart Medical Center
Hopkinsville, KY
Gross charge — - 18
Deaconess Henderson Hospital
Henderson, KY
Gross charge — - 19
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling
Mount Sterling, KY
Gross charge — - 20
Harrison Memorial Hospital
Cynthiana, KY
Gross charge — - 21
Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville (Acute Care)
Madisonville, KY
Gross charge — - 22
University of Louisville Hospital
Louisville, KY
Gross charge — - 23
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East
Lexington, KY
Gross charge — - 24Gross charge —
- 25
McDowell ARH Hospital
Mc Dowell, KY
Gross charge — - 26
University of Kentucky Hospital
Lexington, KY
Gross charge — - 27
Norton Hospitals, Inc
Louisville, KY
Gross charge — - 28Gross charge —
- 29
Mary Breckinridge ARH Hospital
Hyden, KY
Gross charge — - 30
Knox County Hospital
Barbourville, KY
Gross charge — - 31
Marcum and Wallace Memorial Hospital
Irvine, KY
Gross charge —
9 Kentucky hospitals list a gross charge for skin ulcers under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $4,818 to $66,713. The cheapest is Monroe County Medical Center in Tompkinsville; the most expensive is Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care) in Somerset. The state average sits at $27,315.
What's published is the gross charge — the starting point, not what you'd actually owe. 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 skin ulcers 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 skin ulcers 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. Kentucky hospitals missing from the list either don't perform skin ulcers in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 592 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.